| ATTACK | Offensive move in a game/sport; musician's approach to a piece; or, a cricket team's collective bowlers (6) |
| PARS | A piece or a portion (3rd decl. f.) |
| MORALE | Team's collective confidence (6) |
| NEISSE | Lusatian -; river flowing from the Czech Republic to Poland and Germany (6 53 Number of players forming a football or a cricket team (6) |
| ELEVEN | Number of players forming a football or a cricket team (6) |
| TEAM | Old English for "childbearing" that came to mean a brood or litter; a set of draught animals working together; hence, a cooperative unit of players, forming one side in a game/sport (4) |
| TURN | A change of direction; a short walk; one's go or chance to make a move in a game; or, a short act (4) |
| GAMBIT | Opening move in a game of chess in which a player sacrifices a piece, usually a pawn, to secure an advantageous position (6) |
| OLYMPIAD | A major international contest in a game, sport or scientific subject (8) |
| ENPRISE | French term used in chess to describe a piece or pawn that is in a position to be captured/taken (2, |
| DRIVE | Impulsive force; a dynamic stroke of a ball; ambition or get-up-and-go; a ride, spin or trip in a car; or, an avenue or other approach to a house (5) |
| TOKEN | Memento or keepsake; a gift voucher; a board game piece; or, a coin-like disc for a slot machine (5) |
| ATTACKS | Threats to capture an opponent's pieces in chess; or, offensive moves in fencing, cycling, rugby, hockey and other sports (7) |
| STRIP | A bar, belt, ribbon, runway, thong or other line-like narrow piece; or, a sequence of cartoons in a comic (5) |
| PLAYED | Took part in a game, ... sport |
| NETBALL | Seven-a-side game/sport first played in the UK in 1895, today with national teams including the Rose |
| CODA | Concluding passage of a musical piece; or, a finale in a pas de deux (4) |
| OVAL | Shape of a speed-skating rink, a velodrome or a cricket field (4) |
| KING | A crowned draughts piece: or, a chess piece used in castling (4) |
| MARCH | Military-style walk; move made by a chess piece; or, a border, such as one between England and Wales (5) |
