| FOURDIMENSIONAL | Type of chess a crafty politician is said to play |
| STATESMANSHIP | For the crafty politician, perhaps? (13) |
| FOOLSMATE | Type of chess game (5,4) |
| GAMBIT | Type of chess opening |
| JUMP | A hop by a knight in chess; a move in draughts that captures an opponent's piece; a wall-like obstacle in equestrian puissance; or, a descent by a parachutist (4) |
| DIAGONAL | Any oblique line of same-colour squares along which a bishop or queen can move in chess; a line joining two non-adjacent vertices of a polygon; or, a slash/solidus (8) |
| SKEWER | In chess, a tactical manoeuvre in which an attacked man is made to move and expose another man to capture (6) |
| FOURNSIONAL | Like the chess that clever politicians are said to play |
| OPEN | In chess, a word denoting a file with no pawns of either colour (4) |
| TOUCAN | Bird said to play at that game? (6) |
| MICE | Rodents said to play when the cat's away |
| COURSE | Where one may be said to play around? (6) |
| ZUGZWANG | In chess, a situation in which a player's every legal move will disadvantage them (8) |
| ENPRISE | In chess, a threatened piece that has been left undefended (2,5) |
| OARLOCK | Sounds like one of The Lions losing the head is the one bound to be picked - a crafty type essential in a Row (7) |
| NAUTICALMILE | New and precious type of floor covers cool institute and that's a measure of a crafty sort (8,4) |
| HAMPTONWICK | Champ, to have a crafty wink at a bit of Richmond (7,4) |
| DICTATORSHIP | Secretary's boss is a crafty type responsible for keeping the people under the thumb as a rule (12) |
| SHORELEAVE | Presumably this is what Noah's staff took as a crafty diversion to stay out of the water? (5,5) |
| MAIDENVOYAGE | Horse race for those hoping to make the trip? That's a first in a crafty sort of way! (6,6) |
