| REDHOTPOKERS | Very popular game at school and growing particularly in South Africa (3-3,6) |
| FLYAGARIC | Poisonous toadstool with a red cap and white spots, growing particularly among pine and birch trees; Amanita muscaria (3,6) |
| DEEPEN | Want backing to include games at school and change pitch |
| RUGBY | A mauling game at school (5) |
| MISTYPE | Steamy games at school produce inappropriate characters |
| DONKEYSTOOLS | Low seats on which artists sit astride, particularly in art schools |
| DISAGREEABLE | Like stormy weather, usually, particularly in Alberta? |
| OLDBOY | No longer at school and possibly retired (3,3) |
| ABSENTMINDED | Person forgetting one is not at school and being looked after (6-6) |
| PUPILLAGE | Being at school and turning up to plunder (9) |
| CUFFS | Copper grabs two fellows at school and clobbers (5) |
| PERVADE | Pass through class at school and read possibly about verse (7) |
| RETESTS | Stranger stops others at school and checks again (7) |
| DUCATS | Take some education at school and get gold coins (6) |
| WATEN | Born in Russia and growing up in rural WA, whose account of a visit to the Soviet Union was From Odessa to Odessa: The Journey of an Australian Writer (1969) |
| EYECATCHING | Most popular, "game" at the Fair? |
| MUSICALCHAIRS | Popular game at a children's party |
| FORESTRY | Variety store kept in small fish and growing trees (8) |
| SCRAWL | Scribble at school, and swim (6) |
| SLUGLETTUCE | ___ and ___: a popular chain of bar restaurants across the UK, and particularly in the south and east (4,7) |
