| HEIGHTENED | Raised empty hand containing 8 points (10) |
| YARBOROUGH | Bridge hand containing no card above a nine (10) |
| RIGHTANGLE | What can be expressed as 100 grades, 8 points or 6 hours |
| DRESSSENSE | Doctor's eight points under 'The ability to wear well' (5,5) |
| TONK | In lowball, an unplayable hand containing 50 points (sometimes 49)* |
| XTILE | It's worth 8 points in English and 10 points in French |
| SKEET | In draw poker, nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, any hand containing |
| TENNESSEE | US state is first in table with 8 points |
| JTILE | It's worth 8 points in Scrabble |
| FLUSH | A word for a group of ducks; or, a poker hand containing only one suit (5) |
| SHORTSTAFFED | Needing more hands containing spades, he'd start off playing badly |
| KNEE | One of the eight points of contact in Muay Thai |
| JADE | Gemstone that starts with an 8-point Scrabble letter |
| XENON | Chemical element that starts with an 8-point Scrabble letter |
| EXOTIC | Outlandish 8-point letter about hearing aid? (6) |
| KARATE | "Empty hand" skill, literally |
| MARCHED | Demonstrated how empty hand cream could be recycled |
| OCTOTHORP | Name, thought to be referring to the eight points or "fields" of its symbol, for the hatch-like hash sign # found on a keypad and popularly used for tagging on social media (9) |
| OXYMORONIC | Containing contradictory words or phrases (10) |
| CONFERENCE | and 26dn, Fruit meeting the standard containing a number of additives (10,4) |
