| CAPTAIN | Team leader in games; or, a ship's skipper (7) |
| RESULT | Word for a consequence; an outcome aimed at; a quantity obtained by calculation; the final score in games; or, a victory/win (6) |
| PETEROSE | Baseball's all-time leader in games played |
| ROSE | Major league career leader in games played |
| SPINNER | A person who twists fibres into yarns; a Shakespearean word for a spider; a revolving device used as an alternative to a die in board games; or, a Jamaican dumpling (7) |
| BEANBAG | Item thrown in games or type of seat (7) |
| VESTIGE | I see TV broadcast covering opening of games - or a residual part (7) |
| SKIPPER | Another word for a ship's captain or a team leader in sports (7) |
| KITCHEN | Based on the Latin meaning "to cook", a room sometimes with an adjoining larder, pantry or scullery; an old Scottish word for a tea urn; or, a ship's galley (7) |
| PLACATE | Mollify a team leader in situ (7) |
| RUDOLPH | Team leader in a Yuletide song (7) |
| TEMPTER | One trying badly putting team leader in rage (7) |
| DEMOTIC | Popular protest with team's leader in charge (7) |
| EMBARGO | Ban British in game, or otherwise (7) |
| PINTAIL | What to do with donkey in game or duck (7) |
| PARTNER | One of a pair of players on the same side in a card game; or, a person with whom one dances (7) |
| TALLIED | Team leader in league, as agreed |
| TIMEOUT | Clock-stopper in a game, or a description of the answer to each starred clue |
| PONTOON | Card game, or a flat-bottomed boat used to form a landing stage (7) |
| BILL | A written statement, such as that attesting to the health of a person or a ship's company; a chit, invoice or tab; a banknote; a beak; or, a poster (4) |
