| WATERSKIER | Sportsman - a striker we played with |
| SOCCER | Striker we hear needed for football |
| SWELTERING | Hot ringlets we played with (10) |
| STEWARD | Darts we played with the waiter (7) |
| ROWER | A sportsman: a fighter (5) |
| RAYWRENCH | Tool also known as a hex key ("We played basketball in high school. I didn't know then he'd become one of the best three-point shooters of all time.") |
| ANGLER | Sportsman, a conniving fellow, loses wicket (6) |
| BLUE | University sportsman - a shade - depressed (4) |
| PAINTBALLINSAINTPAUL | ...at the game center, we played ___ |
| TRUEBLUE | Time to feel sorry for sportsman, a staunch Conservative |
| PROCURE | Buy the paid sportsman a remedy (7) |
| CHAMPAGNE | Wine for the best sportsman: a distribution of gen (9) |
| ICESKATER | Winter sportsman a Crete ski convert (3-6) |
| LPS | What we played on HIFIs |
| PICADOR | Spanish sportsman, a cad at heart (7) |
| DECLAREWAR | Real card we played to open hostilities (7,3) |
| FINNERAN | Siobhan -, actress we played Rita in comedy drama film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (8) |
| TWOWHEELER | Perhaps bike to where we played around back in school? (3-7) |
| COMEWHATMAY | Match we played around middle of hot month, regardless of everything (4,4,3) |
| BATTER | A striker in cricket; a mixture of eggs, flour and milk as the basis of Breton galettes, crepes, crumpets, drop scones and pancakes; or, a damaged piece of type in a forme (6) |
