| BLANKS | Dominoes without pips; or, Scrabble tiles without letters (6) |
| BLANK | Scrabble tile without a letter (5) |
| DOMINO | Black-and-white playing piece with a pip or pips; or, a hooded cloak worn with an eye mask for a masquerade (6) |
| QUATRE | French for a playing card, domino or side of a die with four pips; or, a ballet sequence for four dancers (6) |
| DEMOTE | Take down a pip or two? (6) |
| AVOWAL | Promise one of 42 Scrabble tiles, we hear (6) |
| VALUES | Subscripts on Scrabble tiles |
| ERSATZ | After some hesitation, placed high-scoring Scrabble tile as substitute |
| LETTER | What each Scrabble tile has on it |
| DEUCE | A playing card or dice with two pips or spots |
| TREY | Domino or playing card with three pips; or, the third tine of a deer's antler (4) |
| SEEDLESS | Southeast man getting a smaller amount without pips |
| ONE | Telephone button without letters |
| CHARACTERLESS | Bland without letters (13) |
| ONES | Telephone buttons without letters |
| TILE | One of a series of items used in the art or process of tessellation; or, pieces for mah-jong or Scrabble (4) |
| TILES | Slabs of baked clay for paving, roofing or for tessellating walls; decorative azulejos; slang for hats; or, pieces for mah-jong or Scrabble (5) |
| GAME | Flock of kept swans; or. an activity such as ludo or Scrabble (4) |
| SEED | Unit of botanical life such as an acorn, bean, conker, kernel, key, nut, pea, pip or stone; a fragment of coral; a bubble in glass; or, a small crystal from which a larger one is grown (4) |
| OTTER | Pip or Pop, on Bear in the Big Blue House |
