| SWEEPSTAKE | A lottery in which the stakes of the participants constitute the prize (10) |
| WANGDOODLES | In private or home games, a hand or round in which the stakes are temporarily increased, usually aft |
| RAFFLE | Name a lottery in which the prizes are usually goods rather than money (6) |
| ACCUMULATOR | A collective bet in which the stake and winnings on each successive event are carried forward to the next |
| TINSOLDIER | One of the participants in the fight in the nursery |
| ROUNDTABLE | A meeting or conference at which the participants meet on equal terms (5,5) |
| CAPERS | In medley races, the first of the participants is frisky (6) |
| TOMBOLA | A kind of raffle or lottery in which numbered tickets are drawn at random (7) |
| PSALM | Any one of the 150 sacred songs, poems and prayers that constitute the book of the Old Testament following the Book of Job (5) |
| ROCK | In geology, the naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals. Such aggregates constitute the basic unit of which the solid Earth is composed. (4) |
| PEPSI | One of the participants in the "cola wars" |
| ARTUNION | Model in to run a lottery in Perth, perhaps |
| SINCERE | As genuine as some of the participants in ceremonials (7) |
| LUCKYDIP | Game/lottery in which prizes are randomly selected from a box; or, any venture of uncertain outcome (5,3) |
| MARCONI | Italian physicist and inventor of a successful wireless telegraph (1896); he later worked on the development of shortwave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all modern long- |
| ANTS | Insects studied in myrmecology that constitute the majority of the diet of green woodpeckers (4) |
| FEATHER | Name one of the epidermal appendages which together constitute the plumage of birds (7) |
| HYPHA | Any of the slender branched filaments that constitute the body (mycelium) of a fungus (5) |
| PLANT | Any of the 390,900 known organisms studied in botany that constitute the world's flora (5) |
| NAVAHO | Which Native N Americans constitute the largest tribal group in the US (6) |
