| DOUBLETEAM | Two-on-one defense strategy in basketball |
| PRESS | Defensive strategy in basketball |
| RESTS | Ends one's defense, in a courtroom |
| MANTOMAN | Basketball defense strategy |
| ALIBI | Accused one's defense |
| INSANITYPLEA | Defense strategy that's not an option in some states |
| NOHUDDLEOFFENSE | Football strategy in which strategy isn't discussed |
| PLANB | Alternative strategy in case the first one fails (4,1) |
| PLAYFORKEEPS | Sounds like strategy in medieval warfare provides option in marbles (4,3,5) |
| SCHLIEFFEN | Alfred, field marshal who devised a plan for German strategy in World War One (10) |
| TACTICALLY | In terms of strategy, in-charge friend will back up diplomacy (10) |
| NIM | Meaning "to take", a combinatorial game of strategy in which two players take turns to remove coins, matchsticks, stones etc from heaps, piles or rows (3) |
| GAMBIT | Sacrificial strategy in chess (6) |
| GAMEPLAN | Strategy (in match) (4,4) |
| GALWAY | Stay behind backing strategy in Ireland (6) |
| RESORT | Strategy in a difficult situation |
| EYEWASH | With no strategy in place, plane trees rot (7) |
| GAMETHEORY | Competitive strategy, in economics |
| MASTERPLAN | Brilliant strategy in reinterpretation of maps learnt (6,4) |
| READOPTS | Choose again to follow strategy in disorganised seaport around Dublin (8) |
