| CANASTA | Article collected by players ahead of a card game (7) |
| TIARA | Jewellery item, article collected by rising Italian artist (5) |
| ABRIDGE | Reduce the length of a card game (7) |
| TRUMPET | Alien produced a musical instrument on the turn of a card (7) |
| OVERTAX | Demand too much of public ahead of a vote (7) |
| POKER | Thought to be related to the German for "brag", the name of a card game of bluff and skill; a bugbear; a mace-bearer; a salamander for stirring a fire; or, a stiff person (5) |
| RADICAL | Thorough review of a card I left (7) |
| CAUTION | Warning in the form of a card (7) |
| PLACARD | Poster of a card to the port authority (7) |
| HASHTAG | On Twitter, rework old material ahead of a day in Germany (7) |
| CARAMBA | Ahead of a taxi carrying stuff that's amazing to Villa? (7) |
| MEASURE | This writer is ahead of a certain standard (7) |
| BIRETTA | It may be placed squarely ahead of a priest (7) |
| NAP | Short name of a card game said to commemorate a French emperor; a tipster's racing certainty; an Australian bedroll; the surface of cloth, raised and cut smooth; or, a doze or a snooze (3) |
| BRITTEN | Composer, one from the UK, ahead of a larger number |
| HAND | The cards dealt to a player in a round of a card game (4) |
| SWIPE | A grab or snatch; a gulp; a wallop; a stroke of a touch screen; or, a pass of a card through a payment terminal (5) |
| TARTETATIN | * Drab, shabby articles collected by a German (5,5) |
| GINRUMMY | Variation of a card game for two based on forming melds (3,5) |
| IOU | Note signed at the end of a card game |
