| QUASH | Cancel game having lost leader (5) |
| PRESSURECOOKER | One letting off steam in gambling game, having lost resources (8,6) |
| AGING | Being angry having lost leader, but getting on |
| EBBED | After network lost leader, plot faded away (5) |
| CHIDE | Rebuke child that lost leader at start of expedition (5) |
| BLUSH | Redden, as will lost leader in the outback (5) |
| OMEGA | Comes last in game, having nothing (5) |
| EATER | Apple perhaps may be one raising game, having missed start (5) |
| QUITS | Abandons game having nothing to lose |
| NAPOO | No more in game, having got two ducks |
| POCHE | Early German card game having some of the features of poker* |
| HEADLESS | Having lost leader, get sealed somehow inside high school |
| COGITATED | Thought business would get upset having lost leader |
| EGRETS | Having lost leader, feels bad for wading birds (6) |
| CONVENE | Call a meeting of coven perhaps, one having lost leader (7) |
| PULLROUND | Recover from illness, but cancel game of golf |
| RUBOUT | Cancel game, contest between two lightweights? (3,3) |
| TUDORROSE | Hybrid from breeding establishment lost leader or rebelled (5,4) |
| JOHNSMITH | Common name for lost leader laid on 4Dn (4,5) |
| BULLYOFF | Start hockey game, having dismissed aggressive type? (5,3) |
