| CONKERS | Glossy fruits or seeds of horse chestnut trees, used in an autumnal playground game of the same name (7) |
| ACORNS | Fruit or seeds of an oak tree (6) |
| TAG | Playground game of tip |
| LITTLE | Set fire (a short story) to flag and call sailors with glossy fruit eaten by Queens' fellow having C |
| TOMATO | Mostly dull interior to very glossy fruit |
| OCHRE | A stretch of loch resplendent in an autumnal colour (5) |
| PEPITAS | Seeds in an autumnal salad, perhaps |
| ASTER | Flower in an autumnal bouquet |
| QUOITS | Rings for encircling hobs or pegs in a game of the same name; or, megalithic cromlechs or dolmens such as any of those in Cornwall including the "giant's house" (6) |
| PINOCHLE | A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in a beziquelike game of the same name (8) |
| ACORN | Depicted on the logo of the National Trust, the fruit or seed of the tree with the Latin name Quercus (5) |
| BOWLS | From Latin for "bubbles", globes or orbs, such as the biased wooden specimens used in a game of the same name; or, a Scots word for marbles (5) |
| CHUCKS | Sounds of hens; pebbles used in pitch-and-toss games of the same name; careless or casual throws; or, devices for holding bits in drills (6) |
| DOMINO | This cultivar of Wisteria floribunda is a small rectangular block, used in playing the game of the same name! (6) |
| BATTLEDORE | A hornbook; an old paddle for washing clothes etc; or, a racquet for striking a shuttlecock in an ancient game of the same name (10) |
| CHARADES | Word for absurd acts, masquerades, ridiculous pretences or travesties; or, riddles acted out in a parlour game of the same name (8) |
| HADES | God who says "Nobody gets out of my domain, whether alive or dead" in a video game of the same name |
| MARBLES | Bumblebees, cat's eyes, comets ... glass or agate "taws" played in a game of the same name (7) |
| COCONUTS | Drupes or seeds of a palm in the genus Cocos (8) |
| SISLEY | Born in Paris of expatriate British parents, the Impressionist noted for rural landscapes such as Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Among the Vines Louveciennes, Regatta at Molesey a |
