| RANKING | Managed with playing card ordering |
| CARDIAC | With playing card I acquire (hearts). It is to do with them (7) |
| JUMPINGJACK | Starting with playing card and toy |
| CLUB | Drama series In the .... with playing card (4) |
| PELMANISM | A memory test with playing cards |
| GRIS | Juan ___, Spanish Cubist painter whose works include 1916's Still Life with Playing Cards (4) |
| BROOKLYN | Posh kid put up with playing regularly (8) |
| HARDCOURT | Difficult to be involved with playing surface (4,5) |
| NOSTRUM | Remedy problem with playing guitar? (7) |
| ACCOST | Initiate discussion with playing cast about company (6) |
| COURT | Be involved with playing area |
| OBSTRUCT | Block in middle of cobbled street with playing court outside (8) |
| NETBALL | Seven-a-side team game with playing positions abbreviated to GK, GD, WD, C, WA, GA and GS (7) |
| MANINTHESTREET | Tom, Dick or Harry entertains them with playing (3,2,3,6) |
| DRAUGHTBOARD | Plan to get fed up, say, with playing surface (12) |
| PULLINGAFASTONE | Getting away with playing a rash stroke (7,1,4,3) |
| FORCED | Bit deaf with playing accordion - as happened to 2Dn 21 Dn (6,10) |
| ABDICATION | Bit deaf with playing accordion - as happened to 2Dn 21 Dn (6,10) |
| CHESSSET | Made in 2005, the Jewel Royale, with playing pieces made from gold, platinum and precious stones, is the world's most expensive what? (5,3) |
| EKED | Managed with difficulty, with "out" |