| NOUGHTS | _ and crosses, game for two (7) |
| EXODUS | Book used for playing features part of noughts and crosses game? (6) |
| LOOPING | Making a curve that bends round and crosses itself (7) |
| MACONIE | - - - Blackman, former Children's Laureate and writer of the Noughts & Crosses books (7) |
| LUGSAIL | What is the quadrilateral sail that lacks a boom. is bent on a yard and crosses the mast obliquely? (7) |
| TICTACTOE | US term for the game, noughts and crosses (3-3-3) |
| TICKTACKTOE | Another name for the game noughts and crosses |
| TOE | Tic-tac-_. alternative name for the game noughts and crosses (3) |
| RANKIN | Author of the Inspector Rebus novels including Knots and Crosses, Hide and Seek and Strip Jack (6) |
| CELEBRITYSQUARES | Former game show based on noughts and crosses |
| OOX | It's for naught in noughts-and-crosses |
| AERIAL | --- Noughts and Crosses, kicking game from Rugby Coach Weekly (6) |
| FINISHING | At home in sport, has contact with dots on I's and crosses on T's (9,7) |
| TOWNS | Typically smaller than cities and larger than villages, urban areas traditionally with central market squares and crosses (5) |
| PENCIL | Writing implement used for crosswords, Pictionary, Scrabble, Battleship, noughts and crosses ... (6) |
| OXO | One of the first digital graphical computer games, based on noughts and crosses and written in 1952 |
| OOO | Noughts-and-crosses win |
| BOXED | Traded hooks and crosses |
| MARKER | One puts ticks and crosses on counter |
| TRAVERSES | Paintings sent back, along with poems and crosses (9) |
