| SCRATCH | Hit the cue ball into a pocket |
| POTTING | Knocking (a snooker ball) into a pocket |
| ROUNDNET | Another name for Spikeball, a game where you hit a ball into a circular trampoline-like object |
| MISS | Fail to kick a soccer ball into a goal |
| BOWLER | Throws the ball into a hat |
| CORONER | Court official lobs ball into a tight spot (7) |
| MASSE | Billiards stroke in which the cue is held nearly vertically to make the cue ball swerve round a ball obstructing a clear shot on the object ball (5) |
| BRICOLE | In billiards, a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball before touching another ball (7) |
| INOFF | In billiards, a shot that goes into a pocket after striking another ball (2-3) |
| POT | Back spinner to hit into a pocket (3) |
| CAROM | A billiards shot in which the cue ball hits one object ball and rebounds to hit another ball (5) |
| PITA | A usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling (4) |
| BILLIARDBALL | Item cued into a pocket (8,4) |
| WHITE | Colour of the cue ball in snooker, pool and billiards; or, the author of Charlottes Web and The Trumpet of the Swan (5) |
| SCREW | Snooker shot in which the cue ball is hit below centre causing it to recoil after hitting the object ball (5) |
| LOFTED | "A ___ shot" means the batsman has hit the ball into the air. (6) |
| PANENKA | A penalty in football in which the taker deceives the goalkeeper by dinking the ball into the goal's centre (7) |
| POOL | Billiard game in which the object is to pot all the balls with the cue ball (4) |
| SPIDER | What, in snooker, is a rest on high legs, used when access to the cue ball is hampered by another ball (6) |
| BREAK | In snooker, the opening shot with the cue ball that scatters the placed balls (5) |
