| SIDEBYSIDE | Twenty-two players in a line close together? (4,2,4) |
| DOUBLET | A pair of associated lines close together in a spectrum (7) |
| CHESSMAN | Any of thirty-two players in a popular board-game (8) |
| ADMIRE | Greatly respect leading figure at sea putting out a line close to shore (6) |
| TWENTYTWO | All of the football players in a line on the pitch (6-3) |
| RING | Butt ___, holds line close to handle end of rod (4) |
| ALPHACENTAURI | Which star, the third brightest in the sky, is actually three stars close together? (5,8) |
| NECKANDNECK | What honeymooners might do when extremely close together? (4,3,4) |
| BIRTHS | What do twins have close together? Places for sleeping, say (6) |
| PROCUMBENT | Lying PC number twenty-two, extremely corrupt |
| CHAINSTORE | Shop warehouse twenty-two yards long? (5-5) |
| KEEPER | General word for a custodian or curator of a museum, gallery or 200; or, either one of the two players in goal during a football match (6) |
| AGO | A board-game for two players in the past |
| CRIBBAGE | A game of cards, usually for two players, in which each player receives six cards (8) |
| DRAUGHTS | A board game for two players in which the rule of huffing can be used (8) |
| LOCKFORWARD | One of two players in second row of rugby scrum (4,7) |
| ANODE | Junction of lines close to a terminal |
| LILY | Flower I planted in lines close to rockery |
| EVEN | Like two, twenty-two, and two hundred and twenty-two |
| BASICALLY | Mostly, when I ring number, lines close |
