| SELFISHDEFENSE | Greedy courtroom strategy, in a way? |
| ALIBI | ___ defense (courtroom strategy) |
| TWINKIEDEFENSE | Notorious courtroom strategy of 1979 |
| FORCEDTHEPACE | Used a strategy in a race to tire out opponents (6,3,4) |
| AQUAPLANE | Skim over a strategy in a crusade that saint's forsaken |
| RESORT | Strategy in a difficult situation |
| EMU | "New Strategy in a War on the ___" (Australian headline) |
| TACTIC | Strategy in work of a diplomat in charge (6) |
| ROUTEONE | Attacking strategy in football involving a long high kick towards a central striker (5,3) |
| DISCOVEREDCHECK | Chess strategy in which a hidden attack is revealed when a piece is moved (10,5) |
| NOHUDDLEOFFENSE | Football strategy in which strategy isn't discussed |
| AGO | A game of strategy in the past |
| PREPLAN | Formulate a strategy in advance |
| PLAYFORKEEPS | Sounds like strategy in medieval warfare provides option in marbles (4,3,5) |
| SCHLIEFFEN | Alfred, field marshal who devised a plan for German strategy in World War One (10) |
| TACTICALLY | In terms of strategy, in-charge friend will back up diplomacy (10) |
| NIM | Meaning "to take", a combinatorial game of strategy in which two players take turns to remove coins, matchsticks, stones etc from heaps, piles or rows (3) |
| GAMBIT | Sacrificial strategy in chess (6) |
| GAMEPLAN | Strategy (in match) (4,4) |
| GALWAY | Stay behind backing strategy in Ireland (6) |
