| PICKLE | ___ball is a game invented in the 1960s and that is played on a court with paddles and a perforated plastic ball (6) |
| AGO | A game invented by the Chinese in the past (3) |
| PELOTA | Basque or Spanish game, played on a court with ball and racket (6) |
| REALTENNIS | Sport played on a court with a winning gallery, tambour and service penthouse |
| FENCING | Combat sport that is played on a piste (7) |
| CRAWL | Swimming stroke in which feet are kicked like paddles and arms reach forward and pull back through the water |
| POLO | Team sport that is played on horseback (4) |
| ROAR | By river, paddle and shout (4) |
| FOURSQUARE | Kids' ball game played on a court ... or a hint to finding the second key letter in this puzzle |
| OMAR | Actor whose character in Lawrence of Arabia says: "There is the railway. And that is the desert. From here until we reach the other side, no water but what we carry with us" (4,6) |
| SHARIF | Actor whose character in Lawrence of Arabia says: "There is the railway. And that is the desert. From here until we reach the other side, no water but what we carry with us" (4, 6) |
| ABERNATHY | Doctor and surgeon whose name is immortalised in the form of the caraway-flavoured digestive biscuits he invented in the 18th century (9) |
| ROUNDERS | Game that emerged during the Tudor times that is played in the open air by teams sprinting between four bases (8) |
| ENDEAVOURS | "Golf is a game in which one ___ to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose": Woodrow Wilson (10) |
| FRANCOLIN | The Cape ___ or spurfowl is a game bird of the pheasant family found in the Cape provinces and Namibia (9) |
| CHANTER | Reed pipe with fingerholes on which the melody is played on a set of bagpipes (7) |
| DANCEOFTHESUGARPLUMFAIRY | Composition for the ballet 'The Nutcracker' which is played on a celesta (5,2,3,5,4,5) |
| SCRABBLE | A board game featuring lettered tiles, invented in the US in the 1930s (8) |
| SPANDEX | What was invented in the late 1950s and used as a replacement for rubber in women's foundation garments? (7) |
| AEOLIAN | The ___ harp is a stringed instrument that is played by the wind (7) |
