| NOUGHTSANDCROSSES | Game in which player's mark might be seen as zero or ten? |
| BINGO | Game in which players mark off called-out numbers on cards (5) |
| LORGNETTE | Fifty or ten? Get corrected glasses (9) |
| IMPASTO | What batsman off the mark might say is an art form (7) |
| STRESS | What an accent mark might indicate |
| OPTICALILLUSION | Image that might be seen as either a vase or two faces, say |
| FAVORITISM | What giving jobs to friends might be seen as |
| SNAPUP | Hurry to buy what might be seen as kitchen equipment? |
| DISMAY | Underworld god might be seen as loss of hope (6) |
| STGEORGESCROSS | What might be seen as positive symbol for part of the UK (2,7,5) |
| MACHIAVELLIAN | I'll have maniac destroyed though it might be seen as unscrupulous, perhaps |
| AMPLITUDE | In physics, the maximum displacement from the zero or mean position of a periodic motion or curve |
| OMEN | A black cat might be seen as one |
| MARRIAGE | A tie made in 8 or 10? Some days one is in fashion |
| REAUMUR | Which scientist gives his name to a thermometer that defines the freezing point of water as zero and the boiling point as 80? (7) |
| NADAL | Decorated athlete whose name could be parsed as "zero" + "loss" |
| BINGOCARDS | Players mark them when letter/ number combos are called: 2 wds. |
| SCUD | Gulf War missile or nickname of tennis player Mark Philippoussis |
| ONE | In the binary number system, all digits are either zero or this |
| HONOUR | Respect or veneration; a group of manors held by one lord; decoration such as a CBE; or, an ace, king, queen, jack or ten in trumps in bridge (6) |
