| POT | A lobster trap; a planter; a pipkin; or, a silver cup as a prize (3) |
| PARROT | Copy planter a bishop put in (6) |
| SECOND | Runner-up position traditionally awarded with a silver cup/medal (6) |
| CREEL | Credit for catching a fish with a lobster trap (5) |
| SLAT | Part of a lobster trap |
| CAPOTE | Writer brings a lobster-trap into church |
| ANDY | Matt Lucas' wheelchair-bound malingerer in Little Britain, ... Pipkin (4) |
| ASH | Volcanic dust; a tree with green "keys"; or, a silvery-grey colour (3) |
| NHL | US competition has Stanley Cup as its prize, abbrev (3) |
| PIG | Character in Pipkins which had a Birmingham accent (3) |
| RUM | Liquor in a Planter's Punch |
| TRAY | A thin insert for a layer of chocolates in a box, a toaster's shallow crumb drawer, a metal sheet on which to bake biscuits or a silver salver for drinks, each named for their likeness to a treen boar |
| CARTWHEEL | A "rota" of a wain; an acrobatic revolution or windmill performed with the arms and legs outstretched like spokes; a large penny with a raised rim, like the first stated; or, a silver dollar (9) |
| RIMMED | Rolled around the lip of the cup, as a golf ball |
| TASSEL | The French left the drinking cup as a hanging ornament (6) |
| MICKELSON | After 12 straight Ryder Cups as a player, he will be a non-playing assistant captain this time. (9) |
| POTTED | Adjective describing shrimp cooked/preserved in a jar/ramekin or a flower/herb grown in a planter (6) |
| TASTEVIN | French word for a sommelier's small shallow silver cup for observing the clarity or colour of wine or for sampling its bouquet and flavour (8) |
| HOLED | Put in the cup, as a golf ball |
| PRODUCT | Trod on cup, as a smashed artefact (7) |