| KNOCKUPS | Practice sessions before games of badminton, squash or tennis (5-3) |
| DRYRUN | Practice session before a performance (3,3) |
| WATERLOO | Something to drink before game of bridge in London (8) |
| RACQUETS | You need these to play tennis, squash or badminton |
| RUSHHOUR | Jam session before or after work? |
| ESPRESSO | European therefore consumes squash or coffee (8) |
| COURT | An area for squash or tennis (5) |
| TWENTYONE | Number of points ordinarily needed to win a game of badminton (6-3) |
| BALL | Target for a squash or tennis racket |
| SHORTEN | Get trim with some squash or tennis (7) |
| RALLY | Sequence of point-deciding to-and-fro shots in tennis, squash or badminton; mass gathering for a cause; or a form of motorsport (5) |
| SHUTTLECOCK | Light feathered cone used in the game of badminton (11) |
| INTO | Is very keen to get in a game of badminton (4) |
| NET | Divider in a game of badminton |
| THENAME | Main purpose of badminton perhaps (3,4,2,3,4) |
| OFTHEGAME | Main purpose of badminton perhaps (3,4,2,3,4) |
| TYPESET | Prepare to print form before game of tennis (7) |
| MEATPIE | With team in disarray before games, one included something to eat (4,3) |
| TRANSPORT | Conveyance used by first of teachers, rushed, before games (9) |
| SAFETYMATCHES | Strikers perhaps full of iron with time before games (6,7) |
