| TOYPOODLE | Play game with energy, holding lead of Dalmat-ian dog (3,6) |
| TOYDOG | Long-awaited character returns, holding lead of young Yorkie? (3,3) |
| DOTAGE | Practise children's game with energy and fondness |
| MEGAPIXEL | Play game with detective getting kiss from the foreign dotty types on screen (9) |
| DODGE | Avoid deer, holding leads of dogs gingerly (5) |
| NEONATE | Baby without water, with little energy, holding on |
| BOURREE | Showed energy, holding extremely unpopular dance |
| BAT | Play game with this beast regularly (3) |
| MEAGRE | Insufficient to play game with engineers (6) |
| BINGOHALL | In which people play games with a set of numbered cards (5,4) |
| DASTARDLY | Despicable and lethal, cutting end of rope holding lead actor |
| MEANSTEST | As men play game of cricket, it may lead to a benefit |
| LARKABOUT | Bird roughly has to play games (4,5) |
| MACHINATE | Play games |
| SKIPPINGROPE | Plays game with one, omitting chord by the sound of it? |
| KINECT | Device for the Xbox 360, allowing users to play games with the use of their own body as the game con |
| MONOPOLIST | Unrivalled businessman who plays game with board? (10) |
| GAMBLERS | My little brother left to play games with some other punters (8) |
| THRONES | Seats you play games with on TV (7) |
| BALL | Something round you play games with (4) |
