| AMNOT | Reply to a playground insult |
| CANSO | Reply to a playground challenge |
| ICANSO | Response to a playground dare |
| THEMUSICALFRUIT | Beans, according to a playground rhyme, and a clue to 17-, 25-, 46- and 57-Across |
| CONQUEST | Achievement of victory through a form of combat whose name is linked to a horse chestnut or "cheeser" used in a playground battle; a successful ascent of a mountain; or, the act/art of gaining a perso |
| PARK | Word for a space occupied by artillery or wagons, hence a verb for "halt and leave a vehicle"; or, in other senses, an estate's pleasure ground, a public garden or a playground (4) |
| ABOUT | Word that pairs with "round" for either a carousel, a merry-go-round in a playground or a traffic circle (5) |
| BOARD | Teachers write on a black or white one (and kids at a playground slide down a slanted one) |
| SEESAW | A playground device that has a plank balanced at its centre to allow for rising and sinking (6) |
| DOESTOO | Reply in a playground argument |
| SLIDE | It has a ladder on a playground |
| SEESAWED | Enjoyed a plank on a playground |
| INTHEC | Like a "pig" on a playground |
| SEESAWS | Notice woodcutting tools to make the kids' up-and-down items in a playground (7) |
| EYE | A 1A at a playground keeps an ___ on her child |
| SCAMPERING | Like kids in a playground |
| DAISYCHAIN | Necklace made on a playground |
| SCAMPERER | One on a playground, perhaps |
| ARESO | Part of a playground back-and-forth |
| SWINGSHIFT | Part of a playground worker's attire? |
