| CHESSSET | Pieces and a board |
| ROOK | Name of a chess piece and a bird |
| WINGCHAIRS | Parlor pieces, and a hint to each set of circles |
| RAGA | Jazz piece and a composition for sitar? |
| SOLITAIRE | Game also called patience or one played with marbles/pegs and a board; or, a single diamond set in a ring (9) |
| LIFE | Name of a cereal, a magazine and a board game |
| IRON | Appliance with a cord and a board |
| DARTS | Game with arrows and a board (5) |
| PIECESTOGO | White stones, black stones, and a board? |
| TEARAPART | Rip to pieces, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| JIGSAWPUZZLE | Chew over what the chippy has for starters? It has a number of pieces and it comes in a box! (6,6) |
| TENMINUTES | Assemble a gross of these period pieces and you can call it a |
| COLLAPSE | Go to pieces and pass a mistake |
| SET | Chess pieces and board, e. g. |
| THIS | Bits and pieces, ... and that |
| ADJOURNMENT | Putting off a popular music presenter with our northern pieces and starting talks (11) |
| QUILT | A warm blanket made of padding, fabric pieces, and decorative stitching |
| SASHIMI | A Japanese delicacy consisting of fresh raw fish or meat sliced into thin pieces and often eaten with soy sauce (7) |
| GARLANDS | Long festoons of fir cones, flowers, foliage and fruit used to decorate beams, chimney pieces and staircases at Christmas; or, literary anthologies or florilegia (8) |
| BREAK | Go to pieces and you get a rest (5) |
