| ENPASSANT | By the way, chess player will meet it as a rule |
| ESTIMATE | So, meet it as roughly as you can reckon. (8) |
| TAKEONBOARD | Accept what chess player will often do |
| PICKUPTHEPIECES | What chess players will do to recover from disaster |
| HEURISTIC | The obscenely rich use it as a rule of thumb, perhaps (9) |
| AUTOCRACY | One absolutely controls it, as a rule |
| HABIT | One can ride in it, as a rule |
| CUE | Pool player will take it as a hint |
| TAKEAPOTSHOT | What the sniper or the snooker-player will do (4,1,3,4) |
| TERMITE | Meet it running first around a wood-eating insect (7) |
| METEORITE | See this crossing the sky or meet it broken on top of earth |
| SLIM | The chance a bridge player will return with an Italian man and Bond's boss (4) |
| BLANK | This might appear to be nothing as the best poker players will show it to you? (5) |
| ISI | "...meet it ___ set it down": Hamlet |
| NOBID | "I should lead with jack": something a bridge player will often say |
| CHALKUP | Score like a snooker player will do (5,2) |
| AFOREHAND | One stroke a court player will use in advance (9) |
| ELIMINATOR | Contest to decide which team or player will go through to the next round (10) |
| DRAWABLANK | Fail, as Russian roulette player will wish to do? (4,1,5) |
| BACKTOBACK | Defensive player will support them, one after the other |
