| GOLDENAGE | Game a legend played in highly successful period (6,3) |
| UPPERCASE | Successful period for every state capital |
| SEMIFINAL | Match one's following, in highly original setting |
| INTENSELY | In highly concentrated way (9) |
| TALLORDER | You'll be highly successful if you accomplish this difficult task (4,5) |
| DEBUTANTE | Meaning "lead off in a game", a young aristocratic woman making her first formal appearance in fashionable society or "le bon ton" (9) |
| HOPSCOTCH | A game, a dance and a wee dram? (9) |
| CHEATCODE | How a gamer might game a game |
| CARTRIDGE | What's spent on shooting game, a hundred for a penny originally |
| BILLIARDS | Ball game; a forerunner of snooker (9) |
| PEASOUPER | Games a police chief overheard in thick fog |
| ABLOOM | Flourishing line, in a successful period |
| MICHAELJORDAN | This sports legend played himself in a movie that featured cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. (13) |
| CASH | Country music legend played by Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line, Johnny ... (4) |
| WINK | A nictate indicating a greeting, joke, secret etc; a counter flicked with a squidger in a game; a nap; an instant; or, a flash of a headlight (4) |
| BLOOM | Liberal in successful period is to look good |
| BROOM | It sweeps up? Right, in successful period |
| GLORY | ___ days (successful period in the past) |
| ONAROLL | Lorna surprisingly in middle of cold is enjoying successful period? (2,1,4) |
| GEHRIG | Baseball legend played by Gary Cooper in "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942), Lou ___ |
