| PETANQUE | A game similar to boules played chiefly in Provence (8) |
| SKIFFLE | Style of pop music in the 1950s, played chiefly on guitars |
| HANDBALL | A game similar to fives played in a walled court (8) |
| TRICTRAC | A game similar to backgammon, associated with France (8) |
| ABSOLUTE | Like some rulers when playing at boules (8) |
| BREADBIN | Vessel also called a crock for sourdough, pain de campagne, pave, boule, a split tin or granary loaf (5,3) |
| CHEQUER | An old word for a chessboard; its pattern of alternating colours; or, one of the pieces used in draughts or in a game similar to halma (7) |
| SABULOSE | Such as boules ground? |
| POLO | A game similar to hockey played on horseback with long-handled mallets |
| LOTTO | Name a game similar to bingo (5) |
| HOOPLA | A game similar to quoits (4-2) |
| SNOOKER | Hoodwink, or a game similar to pool |
| ANGSTROM | Unit of length equal to 0.1 nanometre and used chiefly in measuring wavelengths of light. (Visible light stretches from 4000 to 7000 of these.) (8) |
| MARONITE | Name trio devised for member of a Christian sect living chiefly in Lebanon (8) |
| CHEROKEE | Member of a Native American people formerly of the southern US now living chiefly in Oklahoma (8) |
| BERGAMOT | Citrus tree grown chiefly in Italy having sour pear-shaped fruit (8) |
| LORIKEET | Small bird found chiefly in New Guinea (8) |
| AGITPROP | Political propaganda promulgated chiefly in art or literature (8) |
| WALLOONS | French-speaking people living chiefly in southern and eastern Belgium and adjacent parts of France (8) |
| GLEECLUB | Choir singing part-songs etc, chiefly in North America (4,4) |
