| TAMBOUR | In real tennis, the sloping buttress on one side of the receiver's end of the court |
| RADIO | Is part of the receiver a diode? (5) |
| PENTHOUSE | Historically, a lean-to or shed attached to a building, now used to describe a top-floor luxury apartment; or, any one of the sloping roofs of a real tennis court (9) |
| CATSWHISKERS | Provides the canap's and champagne welcoming school - the one employed in the kitchen by the receivers (3'1,8) |
| GRANDSLAM | In tennis, the achievement of winning all four major championships in the same calendar year (5,4) |
| NETBALL | Seven-a-side game with goal rings at each end of the court (7) |
| BASELINE | Improper sentence from the end of the court (8) |
| BEZEL | Word for the sloping cutting edge of a chisel, thus an oblique face of a cut diamond; or, a grooved collet in which said gem or a watch crystal is set (5) |
| ITALIC | What is the name of the sloping typeface used to emphasise, eg? (6) |
| LETS | Serves that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court |
| ACE | Legal serve in tennis which goes entirely untouched by the receiver's racket (3) |
| RAFTERS | The sloping beams that form the framework of a roof (7) |
| GABLE | The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof. |
| DEUCE | In tennis, the score of 40-40 (5) |
| SERENA | Williams who voiced herself in "The Simpsons" episode, "Tennis the Menace" |
| INTERNALISE | To get a mental grasp of real tennis, I played |
| CROWNCOURT | This should be just the place for real tennis? |
| NET | Tennis: the net over which the ball must be hit (3) |
| ADVANTAGE | In tennis, the next point won after deuce |
| DAVIS | Premier international team event in men's tennis, the ... Cup |
