| WORLDSERIES | Annual set of games to decide the Major League Baseball championship (5,6) |
| TIEBREAK | Game to decide the winner of a tennis set (3-5) |
| LAYOFF | Dismiss workers suggesting they won't catch start of game to decide third and fourth place |
| CASEYSTENGEL | Manager of the Major League Baseball All-Time Team |
| FEHR | Donald of the Major League Baseball Players Association |
| PHOTOFINISH | An end of a race requiring an examination of a freeze-frame to decide the result (5,6) |
| INDIARUBBER | Raj country takes the best of odd games to be bouncy (5-6) |
| JACKRUSSELL | Card game's to promote alternative to setter? |
| DETERMINANT | He'll decide the term in which I get tanned |
| CASTINGVOTE | Poll moulting first, it decides the tie (7, 4) |
| SET | Best of a number of games to gel (3) |
| UTHAPPA | India's league match vs. Pakistan was tied and saw a bowl out to decide the winner. Sehwag, Harbhajan, and which player (surname only) bowled for India in the bowl out? |
| TOURNAMENT | Series of games to determine an overall winner (10) |
| AROD | Nickname of the former Yankee with the major-league record in grand slams (25): Hyph. |
| IONIC | One tossed coin to decide the order (5) |
| DEATH | Oddly squad added no depth, losing power for a way to decide the outcome (6,5) |
| SUDDEN | Oddly squad added no depth, losing power for a way to decide the outcome (6,5) |
| REMATCH | Game that is played again to decide the winner (7) |
| SETBACK | Number of games to support check (7) |
| PLAYOFF | Extra game to decide promotion or the winner of a competition (4-3) |
