| OMBRE | Effect of cloth/hair dyed from light to dark; or, a game played with 40 cards (5) |
| BOWLS | Vessels such as ecuelles for soup; or, a game played on a green (5) |
| ROOM | Word attached to dark or bath |
| SQUASH | From "green vegetable eaten green", word for a courgette, pattypan, pumpkin, marrow or related cucurbit; or, a game played with a soft crushable rubber ball of the same name (6) |
| GINGHAM | From the Malay meaning "striped", a check fabric used for country shirts, jam jar covers, table cloths, hair accessories, dresses, patchwork and bed linen (7) |
| QUADRILLE | A square dance for four or more couples; a four-handed game played with 40 cards; or, historically, one of four groups of horsemen taking part in a carousel or tournament (9) |
| FORTRESSSTRONG | "In a castle dark or a ___ ___, with chains upon my feet. . . " Gordon Lightfoot, "If You Could Read My Mind" |
| LIGHTER | A shade less dark or a match (7) |
| JETSET | Do they always have their hair dyed black? (3,3) |
| TABLE | Slab for/with an inscription; one of the two halves of a backgammon board; or, a company of people seated for supper or a game (5) |
| CHESS | From "four members of an army", a game played with pawns or "foot soldiers" synonymous with cat's-paws, dupes, puppets or stooges (5) |
| FIVES | Invented by Eton school boys, a game played with padded gloves on a court (5) |
| OMBER | Old card game with 40 cards |
| GRADATIONS | Transitions of colours or tones from light to dark in art; or, diatonic successions of chords in music (10) |
| MONTE | Game with three or forty cards |
| SOLITAIRE | Another name for the card game patience; a game played with pegs; a ring set with a single diamond; or, a song covered by The Carpenters (9) |
| DICE | Spotted hexahedrons cast/rolled to determine the outcome of chance in cards, gambling or life; a game played with these; or, small cubes of food (4) |
| DIBS | Name of a game played with pebbles or knuckle-bones, hence a word for money; jacks; or, a claim of rights (4) |
| COCOA | Medium to dark brown (5) |
| AMBER | Medium to dark brownish-yellow colour (5) |
