| INTHEFRAME | Playing snooker, or billiards, like on the table (2,3,5) |
| ONTHETABLE | Playing snooker, or billiards, like in the frame (2,3,5) |
| OBJECTBALL | Aim point in snooker or billiards (6,4) |
| SIDESADDLE | Teams count on the French to be lady-like on the old hunt (4-6) |
| BREAK | Opening shot in snooker or billiards; a sudden change in the weather; or, a brief rest from work with tea or coffee (5) |
| MISCUT | Failure to strike the ball properly in snooker or billiards (6) |
| CUE | Used to strike the ball in snooker or billiards (3) |
| CUSHION | Component of a snooker or billiards table that, when faulty, is known as a 'dead rail' (7) |
| INOFF | Shot at snooker or billiards (2-3) |
| MISCUE | Poorly struck shot in snooker or billiards |
| MASSE | Snooker or billiards stroke (5) |
| BAIZE | Cloth covering a snooker or billiard table (5) |
| MISCUES | Shots in snooker or billiards in which players fail to strike a ball properly (7) |
| NAPPED | Had forty winks like, on the snooker table? (6) |
| SECONDBEST | Somewhat inferior footballer Man U would like on their books? |
| THIRSTTRAP | Racy selfie posted for likes on social media, in modern lingo |
| STEAMBOAT | The mob are given a taste of what it's like on the Mississippi (9) |
| RIBBED | With raised bands, like on the cuffs of a jumper |
| TAXED | Like on-the-books income |
| MALAYALAM | Pain - yes, like, on the tip of my tongue (9) |
