| QUIDDITCH | Game that ends when the snitch is caught ... and whose positions end 17-, 24-, 36- and 48-Across |
| TELLTALE | Snitch is utter legend, perhaps |
| TETRIS | Game that ends when you reach the top |
| JENGA | Game that ends when a tower falls |
| THECASCADES | Pacific Northwest range, three of whose peaks end 17-, 24 - and 47-Across |
| CHESS | Board game which ends when the king is captured. (5) |
| AUTOCORRECTIONS | Suggestions in a text message ... and what 17-, 24-, 36-, and 48-Across may require, literally and figuratively? |
| DRESSSHIRT | Item featuring the ends of 17-, 24-, 36- and 48-Across |
| FREEFALL | It ends when the parachute opens |
| MARCHPAST | After the month end, when the salute is taken? (5,4) |
| RAJ | British regime in India that ends when "Midnight's Children" begins |
| HOT | Weather term spelled with the letters whose positions are indicated by wordplay at 17-, 37-, and 59- |
| SHORTCHANGING | Sounds like Kurt is caught and gets suspended sentence perhaps for penny pinching presumably on the till (5-8) |
| COUCHGRASS | The snitch behind the sofa can be found in the garden unfortunately (5,5) |
| PREY | An animal that is caught and killed by another for food (4) |
| OUTFIELDER | In cricket, a player whose position is distant from the bowler or wicket-keeper (10) |
| TIE | Game that ends with the same score |
| CANDLE | An amandine, bougie, cerge, dip or other taper one is said to burn at both ends when exhausting oneself by sleeping late and waking early (6) |
| MISCREANT | Offender, as intended, is caught and run in |
| COVERT | Hidden, is caught - and about time (6) |
