| BRACE | (Of game) a pair (5) |
| NOHIT | Type of game a pitcher dreams of |
| GAIN | First of games, a home win (4) |
| SALLY | Girls' name meaning "princess" that is linked by association with a bell-rope, a dummy, a fairground/pub game, a figure of fun, a quip, a sortie and Worzel Gummidge's mischievous and somewhat vain cou |
| LEVEL | A stage in a video game; a floor of a multistorey building; or, an instrument for testing flatness (5) |
| BOULE | An orb used in a petanque-like game; a pear- or tear drop-shaped imitation ruby or sapphire; or, French for a round loaf or cob of bread (5) |
| LURCH | A discomfiture; a backgammonlike game; a sudden unsteady pitch, roll or sway; or, the butler to the fictional Addams family (5) |
| TABLE | Item covered in baize for card games; a cut diamond's topmost facet; or, a list of rivals in a league (5) |
| ADDER | In board game, a possible way down when way up's a non-starter (5) |
| ELUDE | Sharing its root "to play" with a simple parlour game, a word meaning to baffle; or, to escape by cunning (5) |
| LIVES | In certain games, a number of opportunities of participation (5) |
| LIMIT | The RPA called for a - - - of 30 games a season to reduce injury risk (5) |
| EATEN | Consumed game, a tender part |
| SELIG | He declared the 2002 All-Star Game a tie |
| FLUSH | In poker and similar games, a hand whose cards all belong to the same suit (5) |
| WINK | A nictate indicating a greeting, joke, secret etc; a counter flicked with a squidger in a game; a nap; an instant; or, a flash of a headlight (4) |
| PUTT | Old word for a bumpkin or a greenhorn; a nap-like card game; a hurl or throw of a stone or a weight; or, a gentle stroke to roll a golf ball across the green, ideally into the hole (4) |
| SNOWBALL | A cocktail of advocaat and lemonade; a frozen mass pelted in a game; a coconut- or ice cream-covered pudding resembling said missile; or, a boom or escalation (8) |
| GIN | An artifice or trick; a contrivance for snaring game; a horse mill; a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds; a variant of rummy; or, from "juniper", an ardent spirit flavoured with the berry-like c |
| KEEPER | Short word for a person responsible for protecting an estate's game; a curator of a museum; or, a lighthouse wickie (6) |
