| VITAE | The last game, race or round in a tournament, or exam in a curriculum (5) |
| FINAL | The last in a series of something such as acts in a play, exams in a curriculum, letters in a word or games in a tournament; or, the concluding pitch of a modal melody in music (5) |
| WANGDOODLES | In private or home games, a hand or round in which the stakes are temporarily increased, usually aft |
| TURNS | From "lathes", a word for reels, rotations, twists, whirls and other circular movements; deviations from courses; or, rounds in coils of rope (5) |
| OGRE | Big beastly type starts Olympic Games race at last minute (4) |
| BYE | Free round in a tournament or season (3) |
| APPLEPIES | Sends in a curriculum vitae including record - the typical Americana stuff (5,4) |
| UNIT | Module in a curriculum |
| EVENT | E.g. a tournament or fixture (5) |
| IRAQI | Tax officials answer first part of exam in a foreign language (5) |
| SEMIS | Penultimate round in a tournament |
| HEATS | Preliminary rounds in a tournament (5) |
| LOOPY | Word meaning full of coils, convolutions, picots, stitches or twirls, as in sewing or handwriting; or, describing one full of mental kinks, twists and turns, thus considered a little twisted or round |
| APRIL | When the last game of March Madness is often played, paradoxically |
| ROBIN | One of a blush, flock, reliant or round of redbreasts or ruddocks (5) |
| ROWAN | Its berries are round and red, or round and pale (5) |
| UNITS | Parts of a curriculum |
| SHAPE | Square or round |
| ROAST | Rump or round cut |
| TIGERS | Team that beat the Yanks, 8-5, in the last game at the original Yankee Stadium (1973) |
