| MONOPOLY | Board game with charm-like tokens in the form of top hats, dogs, racing cars, irons and thimbles to name a few (8) |
| DODO | Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| COUNTER | A bar, table, worktop or other surface over which money is banked, food served or other business conducted; or, a coin-like token (7) |
| SEWINGKIT | It may include spools and thimbles |
| PROTOTYPE | Earliest form of top poetry (9) |
| CARS | Tokens in the Game of Life |
| FOOTPATHS | Trails wearing of top hats |
| DEARTH | Lack expensive sources of top hats (6) |
| ETUI | Needle and thimble repository, perhaps |
| SEWER | Thread-and-thimble artisan |
| YELLOW | One of the colours of the counters used in Connect Four, pieces/tokens in Ludo, wedges in Trivial Pursuit or locations on a Monopoly board (6) |
| TOPPER | Informal name for the hat depicted in miniature as one of the iconic charm-like pieces in Monopoly (6) |
| DISTANCE | Tips for driving irons and how to hold yourself before hitting the ball from the tee to the hole (8) |
| SCAR | Main antagonist of Disney's The Lion King, voiced by Jeremy Irons and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the 1994 and 2019 versions respectively (4) |
| NINTH | Traditionally, on this day over Christmas, ladies dance around West Tockenham in top hats in the middle of the morning! (5) |
| STORYBOOK | Word for a child's fairy tale collection; thus, an adjective evoking a sense of fanciful, fantastical, idyllic or unreal charm, like the land of make-believe or happily ever after depicted in said ill |
| WELSH | The ___ hat became popular in the 19th century in Wales; it is a sort of top hat for women. |
| HOME | Where you try to move all your tokens in a game of Sorry! crossword clue |
| CAR | Token in the board game Life |
| SNARK | Fictional creature hunted with thimbles, care, forks and hope in an 1876 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll (5) |
