| CONKERS | Game played with horse chestnuts whose annual world championships are held in Southwick in Northamptonshire (7) |
| DARTS | Game whose annual world championship takes place at London's Alexandra Palace (5) |
| OTHELLO | Game with an annual world championship, first held in Tokyo in 1977 |
| SOAPBOXDERBY | Annual world championship competition held in Akron |
| POLO | Team game played with horses (4) |
| CHESS | Game played with horses |
| CONQUER | What William came to do with horse chestnut, you say? (7) |
| BATHURST | The postponed next World Cross Country Championships are due to take place in February 2023 on the infield of this Australian city's Mount Panorama motor racing circuit |
| GRASS | Surface on which the Wimbledon tennis championships are played (5) |
| KENT | County known as the "Garden of England" where the strawberries supplied to the Wimbledon Championships are cultivated (4) |
| POKER | Game with an annual World Series held in Las Vegas |
| EPEES | Weapons whose tips are held in place with grub screws |
| SOANE | Architect whose private collections o objets d'art are held in his self-designed house-museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields (5) |
| DAVOS | Town in Graubunden, Switzerland, host to the annual World Economic Forum |
| TIMESIGNAL | In sports, hands are held in a T-shape for one: 2 wds. |
| CROWNJEWELS | One flying straight to jack in posts which are held in the Tower of London |
| ELBOWSTAND | Balancing pose in which the legs are held in the air |
| CMA | Org. whose annual awards are presented at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena |
| TREES | With cambia, canopies, crowns and trunks, woody plants such as the beeches, elms, hornbeams, horse chestnuts, oaks and Britain's oldest specimens, the yews |
| SOCIALISM | Political system in which things are held in common (9) |
