| DETERMINE | Discourage my group to decide the matter |
| WORLDSERIES | A best-of-seven playoff between the winning teams of the two major US baseball leagues to decide the championship (5,6) |
| 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? |
| IONIC | One tossed coin to decide the order (5) |
| REMATCH | Game played again to decide the winner |
| TIEBREAK | Game to decide the winner of a tennis set (3-5) |
| SUDDEN | Oddly squad added no depth, losing power for a way to decide the outcome (6,5) |
| DEATH | Oddly squad added no depth, losing power for a way to decide the outcome (6,5) |
| PHOTOFINISH | An end of a race requiring an examination of a freeze-frame to decide the result (5,6) |
| WHERE | The place that the woman held in my group (5) |
| ROUST | Locally, treat roughly my group found in The Hill going all the way back (5) |
| PUSHIEST | The most assertive nuisance admits my group is mostly cool (8) |
| AFFLATUS | Impulse to create a fine apartment with my group (8) |
| JOANRIVERS | Comedian who once said, "My audiences are my group therapy" |
| WADI | My group claims I'd like the Amazon river (4) |
| RIGOUR | Engineer my group's attention to detail (6) |
| CASTING | Before the vote, this will decide the issue |
| JUDGES | Decide the merits of part of the Bible (6) |
| RESOLVE | Decide the sun always goes round the wrong way (7) |
| SUSPENSE | My group get to park in sight of thriller writer's creation (8) |
