| RELAYS | Contests between teams; fresh sets of hounds or horses to relieve others in hunting or on journeys; or, electrically-operated switches (6) |
| RELAY | A set of fresh horses or hounds to relieve others on a stage or a chase, hence a relief gang; or, a lap or leg of a race between teams of runners (5) |
| ARROWS | Missiles shot in hunting or wars perhaps? (6) |
| CHANGES | Fresh sets of clothes |
| AGREEMENT | Green team's fresh pact (9) |
| INTERNATIONAL | Contest between teams from different countries (13) |
| MATCH | Contest between teams (5) |
| DERBY | Sporting contest between teams from the same area (5) |
| CRY | A plea, shout or urgent appeal; a fit of weeping; a pack of hounds or their hunting bay; a proclamation of a town's bellringer; or, the call of a street-trader selling goods (3) |
| CAST | A throw of a die, fishing-line or sounding lead; a squint of the eye; the directing of a pack of hounds; or, the collective actors in a play (4) |
| KENNEL | Word for a dog's house or hut that derives from the Latin name for said creature; a pack of hounds; or, the den or lair of a fox (6) |
| CHANGE | A fresh set of clothes; the moon's arrival at a new phase; any one of the orders in which a peal of bells can be rung; or, coins collectively (6) |
| PACKS | Bundles borne on the back; beautifying clay or mud treatments; scrums of rugby forwards; or, groups of hunting hounds or wolves (5) |
| PACK | Set of playing cards; or, a group of hounds or wolves (4) |
| KENNELS | Packs of hounds; or, hut-like shelters or outbuildings for dogs (7) |
| HELLO | A song by Adele, Oasis or Lionel Richie named after a greeting originally used as a hunting cry to urge hounds or call in the field (5) |
| PRESERVE | From "to keep", a word for a chase where game is kept for private hunting or shooting; or, chutney, jam, marmalade or other such food, bottled or pickled for keeping (8) |
| KESTREL | Small bird of prey known for hovering while hunting, or amateur sleuth in the novels of Kate Ross |
| SERIES | A cycle, sequence or set of things such as books, coins, games between teams, radio/television programmes or stamps (6) |
| DOGDOM | World/realm of canines, hounds or pooches and their enthusiasts or canophilists collectively (6) |
