| MAHJONGG | Game of Chinese origin, played with tiles, or pais, that are similar in physical description to those used in dominoes but engraved with Chinese symbols and characters and divided into suits and honou |
| MAHJONG | Game of Chinese origin played with tiles (3-4) |
| PRETTYUGLY | Oxymoronic physical description |
| THREELEGGEDRACE | It's not a physical description of the Martians in "War of the Worlds" |
| RHYMES | The ends of the lines are similar in sounds (6) |
| ALIKE | Pacino %26 Eisenhower are similar in appearance? (5) |
| QUARRELS | Word for squabbles or wrangles that also refers to square things, including panes of glass, tiles or arrowheads for the bolts of arbalests/crossbows (8) |
| SHINGLE | Word that takes us from rooftop to seashore and from man-made to nature, when referring to a piece of wood used as a house tile or a mass of small rounded pebbles on a beach (7) |
| GONG | Percussion instrument of Chinese origin that is struck with a felt mallet (4) |
| MOSAIC | Design or picture created with a number of small tiles or tessera; or, a colourful variegated pattern (6) |
| CELADON | Type of pottery of Chinese origin with a pale green glaze (7) |
| SHARPEI | Compact muscular breed of dog of Chinese origin whose name literally means 'sand skin' (4,3) |
| TETRIS | A puzzle video game based on matching a series of falling colourful tiles or polyominos to clear levels (6) |
| POLO | Team sport of ancient Persian origin, played on horseback with long-handled mallets and a wooden ball (4) |
| MAH | ___-jong, Chinese game played with tiles (3) |
| CLAY | Linked to English dialect for "sticky", word for a natural substance moulded and baked to make bricks, ceramics, cloam, pottery, tiles or other figuline articles; or, earth/mud generally (4) |
| LATH | One of the wooden battens or slats providing the framework for plaster/tiles or forming a trellis (4) |
| YODELS | Drake's Cakes snacks that are similar to Hostess Ho Hos |
| ELKS | Animals that are similar to moose |
| MICE | Animals that are similar to rats |
