| SCONCE | Candle holder has a trick in each odd socket (6) |
| MOHAIR | Smooth rapier cutting each odd bit of sweater material (6) |
| ALADDIN | Magic lamp holder has a line to tack on at home (7) |
| APPOINTEE | Post-holder has a quiet pint hosting old Europeans (9) |
| SCISSORSHOLD | Cutting type in ship has a trick to wrestle with (8,4) |
| DRACONIAN | Overly harsh doctor has a trick with one case of abrasion (9) |
| CONJUROR | What despairing defence counsel wants to do? He has a trick or two |
| OLDEST | A trick in the book that doesn't fool anyone |
| SHEATH | Holder has the variety (6) |
| LOADER | Peter ...... , England Test bowler who took a hat-trick in his 6-36 against West Indies in Leeds in 1957 (6) |
| FINESSE | Delicacy and elegant skill in style or performance; subtlety and tact in handling/manipulating situations; or, a technique to win a trick in bridge (7) |
| SCIVER | Natalie _, the first England cricketer to take a hat-trick in a Women's Twenty20 International match (6) |
| BADREE | West Indian spinner Samuel ___, who took a hat trick in a losing cause against the Mumbai Indians in 2017 |
| MBAPPE | Kylian ......, France, Paris SaintGermain and 2015-18 Monaco forward; FIFA World Cup Final winner in 2018, runner-up and scorer of a hat-trick in 2022 (6) |
| LOOFAH | Scrubber turning trick in front of a hospital ... (6) |
| MUMBAI | City's bowler Shardul Thakur took a hat-trick in the Ranji Trophy. (6) |
| TRUMPED | Played a stronger suit to take a trick, in bridge |
| HOAX | A trick in which someone tells people a lie |
| APRIL | Month you may be a victim of a trick in |
| MISERE | From the French for "sadness" or "poverty", a bidding player's attempt to lose every trick in solo whist (6) |
