| MELDED | Scored in bezique |
| ROYALMARRIAGE | King and Queen of trumps in bezique |
| TURNUPTRUMPS | In bezique, one must be especially helpful |
| MELD | Combination in the card game bezique |
| ZEBRA | In retirement, regular bezique entertained an African resident (5) |
| PINOCHLE | Two-to-four-player card game similar to bezique, or a winning combination of queen of spades and jack of diamonds declared in it (8) |
| BINOCLE | Card game akin to bezique |
| CARDGAME | Bezique or baccarat, eg |
| QUEENELIZABETH | Playing bezique, he lent a sovereign |
| PINOCLE | Card game similar to bezique (7) |
| BRIANLARA | West Indian cricketer who holds the record for most runs scored in both a first class (501, in 1994) and Test (400, in 2004) innings (5,4) |
| GUERREIRO | Portugal player who scored in their Group F win against Hungary, and then scored an own goal in their loss to Germany |
| TAP | ___-in (goal scored in soccer with a light touch at close range) |
| ELMASRI | Former Canterbury sharpshooter who held record for most points scored in an NRL career until passed by Cameron Smith in 2019 (2,5) |
| STERLING | English footballer who scored in England's 1-0 win over Croatia in their Group D game at Euro 2020 |
| POULSEN | Danish player who scored in the second minute in their Group B game vs. Belgium, though Belgium went on to win the game |
| ATEMPO | Substitute in centre of goal, jumping up, scored in time |
| ELGIN | Los Angeles Lakers forward who holds the record, 61, for points scored in a single game of the NBA Finals, in 1962 against Boston Celtics (5) |
| BAYLOR | Los Angeles Lakers forward who holds the record, 61, for points scored in a single game of the NBA Finals, in 1962 against Boston Celtics (6) |
| TOUCHE | French word used to acknowledge a hit in fencing, thus a point scored in an argument or a riposte (6) |
