| SHUFFLE | Mix up (playing cards) (7) |
| SULPHUR | Hurls up, playing with this element (7) |
| FOLD | Wherein, sheepishly, to give up playing cards? (4) |
| PIBCORN | Sadly, I have almost given up playing vibraphonic instrument (7) |
| JOHANNESPROMS | Serious composer who ended up playing at high schools? |
| INSIDE | Locked up, playing for team (6) |
| RESIGN | Give up playing chess (6) |
| INFOLD | Wrap up playing of Lind |
| LIVERPUDLIAN | Like George Harrison, I land up playing on organ |
| PEANUT | Ante up, playing with food (6) |
| TRIUMPHAL | Jubilant to bag Romeo, ham it up playing line |
| EUROPEAN | Are one-up playing abroad in such competition? |
| STROP | May sharpen up, playing sport (5) |
| PUSSYCAT | Stays up playing, collecting 100 for the kitty (8) |
| STEPONIT | Hurry up, playing set point (4,2,2) |
| ABDIKATE | Give up playing a Shakespearean shrew? |
| CUE | You might chalk one up playing pool |
| LLEWELYN | Prince of Wales theatre's latest, fittingly, coming up: playing regularly |
| ARNOLD | Roland gets mixed up playing Mr Ridley as Godfrey in Dad's Army (6) |
| NEWEUROPE | We're one up playing some states from the east |
