| SHOPKEEPER | Battered sheep with poker? Small businessman? (10) |
| WEATHERBEATEN | Battered sheep sounding cowed (7-6) |
| SILENTRUNNING | 1972 film with poker-playing robots |
| CHIP | Word with "poker" or "blue" |
| CHIPS | Word with poker or chocolate |
| DEALSTO | Provides with poker hands |
| GAMEFISH | They get caught for competition with poker shark (4,4) |
| CARDGAMES | Grade scam broken up with poker, etc (4,5) |
| DEADPAN | Old man welcomes card player with poker face (7) |
| LOOKTHEPART | Seem suitable to halt getting in trouble with poker (4,3,4) |
| HICKOK | 1800s marshal associated with poker's "dead man's hand" |
| THE | Article on sheep with the bachelor party going along with tragic boycott on lubricant leading to 3Dn's 18Dn 27Ac (3,7,3,4,3,3,5,5,3) |
| STAGAND | Article on sheep with the bachelor party going along with tragic boycott on lubricant leading to 3Dn's 18Dn 27Ac (3,7,3,4,3,3,5,5,3) |
| BLACKBLACKOIL | Article on sheep with the bachelor party going along with tragic boycott on lubricant leading to 3Dn's 18Dn 27Ac (3,7,3,4,3,3,5,5,3) |
| THECHEVIOTTHE | Article on sheep with the bachelor party going along with tragic boycott on lubricant leading to 3Dn's 18Dn 27Ac (3,7,3,4,3,3,5,5,3) |
| UNSHORN | Like a sheep with a fleece |
| RAMP | Sheep with its tail making a racket (4) |
| RUDDLE | Red ocher to mark sheep with |
| RENEW | Restore sheep with the Royal Navy (5) |
| MIDGET | Tiny sheep with weak back |
