| TOPPING | Hitting a bad golf shot or what's on top of my Christmas cake (7) |
| ROOFING | There's a frog in love on top of my house! |
| TETANUS | Type of shot or what it prevents |
| OFFDRIVE | A rotten golf shot or cricket shot (3,5) |
| HEROICS | Brave acts, or what, on return by one extremely courageous (7) |
| MUSIC | 2000 Madonna album, or what's on it |
| MULLIGAN | A retaking of a bad golf shot (8) |
| SLICE | Cut through a bad golf shot |
| TAKEAMULLIGAN | Advice after a bad golf shot |
| SCORNED | Prepared to play, covering what's on top of charts -- met with derision (7) |
| EMERALD | Gem dealer confused over what's on top of moonstone (7) |
| UFOLOGY | People lifting their heads a lot ? In bad golf you find it (7) |
| TIFFANY | "Come and trim my Christmas tree / With some decorations bought at ___" |
| SEASIDE | Last bits of Christmas cake, privately, by the coast (7) |
| SHANK | Old English leg, today's stem, part of a shoe, bad golf shot, stocking or long-handled ladle, but mainly a joint of meat from an animal's "peg" (5) |
| STOLLEN | Sounds like a pilfered German Christmas cake (7) |
| NOTICED | How unfinish ed Christmas cake may be spotted (7) |
| YULELOG | Type of Christmas cake (4,3) |
| OFFPUTTING | Bad golf shot in front of gallery is discouraging (3-7) |
| COCONUT | Tom Cruise's Christmas cake |
