| MANGE | New game can produce trouble on the hide |
| AGGRO | Stag groups always produce trouble (5) |
| QUARRY | From cor "heart", term for the parts of a deer placed on the hide and rewarded to the hounds originally, later any animal hunted or hawked (6) |
| PELT | Assail with repeated blows on the hide |
| AIL | Drink, it's said, produces trouble |
| GIN | Card game Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle? It'll grow on you? |
| REFUSE | At the game, can you see the ___ his whistle? Rubbish! (6) |
| COVERT | Word for a woody thicket in which game can hide; feathers concealing the quill-bases of wings; any shelter or disguise; or, a flock of coots (6) |
| DIABOLO | Top game can be the very devil |
| WHISTLE | To the French, a card game can be a noisy thing! (7) |
| BADMOONRISING | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit with the line "I see trouble on the way," or what can be found in three long Down entries |
| DOMINOES | The pieces in which game can be called bones, cards, tiles, stones or spinners? (8) |
| COVER | Book jacket; forest vert in which game can hide; or, a spy's persona (5) |
| OPENSEASON | Period of the year during which game can be hunted without restriction (4,6) |
| NETBALL | Game can be bent, completely (7) |
| TEIGN | Get in trouble on the river (5) |
| SANREMO | Oarsmen in trouble on the Ligurian Sea (3,4) |
| BEWAIL | Regret trouble on the Internet coming back |
| UHOH | There's trouble on the far right you wish to quash |
| CAMELLIA | Asian growth arrived and left trouble on the way up |
