| HITABLOT | Informally in backgammon, make a move that puts one of your opponent's pieces on the bar |
| TUNIC | Garment puts one of the French into spasm (5) |
| CHECKERS | Jump over your opponent's pieces |
| REPRESS | Put in irons, maybe - or put one of them over again |
| FLIT | Move that puts beginner into frenzy (4) |
| HEADLOCK | *Wrestling move that puts an arm around someone's neck |
| PROMOTION | In favour of a move that will earn more money? (9) |
| OVERMAN | Have too many staff, in a move that ran amok (7) |
| CAUSEASTIR | Be responsible for a move that will create excitement (5,1,4) |
| JUMP | A hop by a knight in chess; a move in draughts that captures an opponent's piece; a wall-like obstacle in equestrian puissance; or, a descent by a parachutist (4) |
| TUCKER | Lacy bib worn historically as a modesty piece in the neckline of a dress; a fuller; or, a word used informally in Australia for food (6) |
| 32 | Number of pieces on the board at the start of a chess game |
| TAPSHOE | Item of footwear worn by dancers, equipped with metal pieces on the toe or heel that make a rhythmic sound (3,4) |
| CHEQUER | Sound jubilant capturing queen, one of the pieces on the board (7) |
| APRIL | The month in which the BBC's Panorama broadcast its classic piece on the failure of the spaghetti ha |
| HOME | An area or "den" where a player is safe from attack in games; a sanctuary for rescued cats/dogs; the inner table in backgammon; or, one's abode, birth country or family seat (4) |
| TOKENS | Time to approve measures in the paper for pieces on the game (6) |
| EPIC | Great story that puts one in the picture (4) |
| HALMA | Board game of 256 squares in which pieces are moved into vacant squares immediately behind an opponent's pieces (5) |
| PULLUPSTAKES | Ten bucks that your opponent loses his grip on the bar, say? |
