| FULLHOUSE | Hand composed of a pair and a three-of-a-kind |
| ACES | The best three in a three-of-a-kind |
| PAIR | A three-of-a-kind beats it |
| TWOPLY | Description of yarn composed of a pair of strands or wooden board in layers (3-3) |
| IRENECASTLEMOAT | Half of a famous dancing pair and a medieval defensive trench |
| DIATOM | Aquatic microorganism that's not actually composed of a pair of particles? |
| MIXEDDOUBLES | Tennis format with man-and-woman pairs ... and a hint to each set of circles |
| SCISSOR | One blade on a pair, and the kind of cut action employed in 'by-pass' secateurs (7) |
| FULL | - house; ranking above a flush, a poker hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair (4) |
| GTO | "Little" car of song with "Three deuces and a four-speed and a three-eighty-nine" |
| PAIRROYAL | Three of a kind, two of a kind, and a type of flush |
| ARENTWE | Questioning words with "a pair" and "all" |
| PRONE | A pair - and one is lying (5) |
| HOUSE | Poker hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair (4,5) |
| SPOON | Etymologically related to "spick and span", a cutlery item to whose shape the bill of a white wading bird, an oar and a 3-wood club are likened (5) |
| THANDATHU | Starts with three and a three and you get six (9) |
| UNIVALVE | Of a mollusc, having a shell composed of a single piece (8) |
| MESON | Subatomic particle intermediate in mass between an electron and a proton, typically composed of a quark and an antiquark (5) |
| CUSTOMSUNION | A trade bloc of nations, composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff (7,5) |
| MESONIC | Any of a family of subatomic particles that are composed of a quark & an antiquark (adj.). |
