| SCORINGAGOAL | Putting the biscuit in the basket. In hockey |
| SCORES | Puts the biscuit in the basket |
| LANE | Area between the free-throw line and the basket, in basketball |
| THE | Put the biscuit in ___ basket |
| HOOP | Term for the basket in basketball (4) |
| FIG | Fruit of a tree in the mulberry family used to make some varieties of Christmas pudding or pastry biscuits in the form of rolls (3) |
| BETWIXT | Little girl eats chocolate bar with biscuit in the middle (7) |
| QUAALUDE | Drug nicknamed "disco biscuit" in the 1970s |
| PRETZEL | Crisp, savoury biscuit in the form of a knot or stick (7) |
| SHORTBREAD | Named for its crumbly texture and said to have been invented or refined by Mary, Queen of Scots, a rich, buttery biscuit in the form of a finger, petticoat-tail or round (10) |
| HAMPER | The lady's got the map out to put in the basket (6) |
| CREEL | Get little credit for the fish in the basket (5) |
| SCORE | Put the ball in the basket |
| LOTION | "It puts the ___ in the basket" |
| OSIER | I rose, perhaps, in the basket-making trade |
| BALLOONIST | He hopes to avoid getting chicken in the basket (10) |
| CANASTA | Meaning "basket" in Spanish", a meldforming card game in the rummy family in which jokers and deuces are wild (7) |
| MARGE | TV character who says "I forgot to clean the lint basket in the dryer. If someone broke into the house and did laundry, it could start a fire" |
| BUTTERCUP | Articles from the picnic basket in the meadow |
| DRUNK | Dip biscuit in tea that's brought in right stewed (5) |
