| BILLIARDS | Ball game; a forerunner of snooker |
| FIVESTONES | The first of several Eton characters seen in ball game, a game of dibs (4-6) |
| BATTLEDORE | Short name of a game played with a shuttlecock and rackets that was a forerunner of badminton (10) |
| LOTTO | A forerunner of the game of bingo (5) |
| CANDID | 1960s and 1970s ITV comedy show; a forerunner of Game For A Laugh and Trigger Happy TV (6,6) |
| CAMERA | 1960s and 1970s ITV comedy show; a forerunner of Game For A Laugh and Trigger Happy TV (6,6) |
| TIPCAT | Old outdoor game played with a bat, considered a forerunner of rounders and cricket (3,3) |
| WHIST | Card game for four, a forerunner of bridge (5) |
| ROBOT | Card game for four; a forerunner of bridge (5) |
| SKA | Type of Jamaican pop music; a forerunner of reggae |
| SHAWM | Double-reed woodwind instrument of the medieval and Renaissance period; a forerunner of the oboe (5) |
| CEZANNE | French artist identified with postImpressionism and also as a forerunner of Cubism whose paintings include House in Provence, The Card Players, The Basket of Apples and Bathers (7) |
| BABBAGE | Charles, London born mathematician who built a machine which was a forerunner of the computer (7) |
| CHALUMEAU | Unexpectedly hum a clue about a forerunner of the clarinet (9) |
| HOWDOYOUDO | A forerunner of "Hi!"? (3,2,3,2) |
| VELOCIPEDE | A forerunner of the bicycle |
| PRESS | Railroad, a forerunner of ship? |
| ELOPE | Be a forerunner of marriage? |
| TROMBONE | The sackbut was a forerunner of this musical instrument (8) |
| OBOE | The shawm was a forerunner of this wind instrument (4) |
