| RAQUET | Technique or action of hitting an opponents ball in a traditional lawn game played with mallets and |
| TEEOFF | The action of hitting the first ball to begin play at a hole in golf (3,3) |
| CROQUET | Lawn game played with mallets and hoops that was popularised in the UK by John Jaques when he packaged the game with sets of rules in the 1850s (7) |
| COQUET | A technique of hitting a ball in a lawn game played with hoops and mallets (6) |
| MOTORPOLO | Snooty game played with mallets and Mustangs? |
| INLAY | Printed card or booklet attached to the case of a CD, DVD or cassette; or, the technique or process of boulle or marquetry (5) |
| BOCCE | Lawn game played with a ball known as a pallino |
| STYMIE | Former situation on the green in golf in which an opponent's ball blocked the line between the ball to be played and the hole (6) |
| ROQUE | Lawn game played with mallets |
| POLO | Team sport of ancient Persian origin, played on horseback with long-handled mallets and a wooden ball (4) |
| TOE | Very end of a golf club or hurley; pointe technique; or, a foot digit (3) |
| FOUETTE | French word signifying a "whipped" pas or action of a ballerina's leg (7) |
| ETUDE | Composition or "study" intended to test or improve a player's technique or virtuosity (5) |
| TIMING | Skill or action of judging the right moment in a situation (6) |
| RANGE | The extent or scope of the operation or action of something. (5) |
| PARF | Kind of hole on which a double eagle is possible without hitting an ace |
| MAJORTOM | David Bowie persona described as “a junkie, strung out in heaven’s high, hitting an all-time low’ |
| POLA | Game with mallets and mounts |
| TRADESECRET | A special formula, technique or process known and used to advantage by only one manufacturer (5,6) |
| INKPAD | Item used in old fingerprinting techniques or for impressing dates on library books with a stamp (6) |
