| TOGA | To start the game with a loose old garment |
| GALA | Start the games with the overseas celebration |
| NEOPHOBIA | Dread of the new phone let loose old prejudice, mostly (9) |
| OXALATE | Retiring foreign character, loose old salt (7) |
| CLUBS | Suit in a pack of cards denoted by a black trefoil; or, objects used in the game with a name once supposed to mean "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden" (5) |
| SPORTED | Wore a strip to the game with a little boy (7) |
| ONONESMIND | To continue the game with a person's care will cause ongoing worry (4,2,4,4) |
| PLAY | To continue the game with a person's care will cause ongoing worry (4,2,4,4) |
| WHISTLE | The referee blows it to start the game (7) |
| TENNIS | Put up the net to start the game(8) |
| BEATER | He has a job to start the game! |
| RESERVE | Extra player to start the game again? |
| KICKOFF | Remove one's boots to start the game (4,3) |
| SERVE | Work to start the game (5) |
| PUCKDROP | Action at centre ice to start the game: 2 wds. |
| 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) |
| LAMAR | LeBron James broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 39-year-old NBA scoring record on Wednesday, finishing the game with 38,390 career points. Rapper Kendrick ___ commented: "you had the doubters and the naysaye |
| DOMINO | A game played with a loose cloak (6) |
| MAGOG | Of a pair, the one spoiling most of the game with an own goal |
| FAIRYMINDED | Like a child with a loose tooth? |
