| TICTACTOE | Game of circles and crosses |
| JUMBLE | Game of circles in squares |
| BLOOMSBURY | An area of London associated with a group of artists, intellectuals and writers who, according to Dorothy Parker, "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles" (10) |
| AVEBURY | Located in Wiltshire, England, it is one of the largest prehistoric sites in Europe of the late Neolithic period. It has circles and a sanctuary. This site, together with Stonehenge, were collectively |
| COOKSTOWN | A former centre of the linen industry in County Tyrone, near to the Beaghmore stone circles and cairns (9) |
| COMPASSES | Instruments used for drawing circles and measuring distances, consisting of two arms, joined at one end (9) |
| SHAPES | Circles and such |
| GEOM | Subj. with circles and such |
| ACNE | Very good circles and spots |
| SHOUTS | Closes round circles and cries (6) |
| HOAXES | Alien autopsies, crop circles and the like |
| EYEGELS | They target dark circles and puffiness |
| PIE | Irrational things to do with circles and logs that may be eaten |
| PETEREGAN | Actor who played Paul Ryman in Ever Decreasing Circles and Magnus Pym in A Perfect Spy |
| HOSTEL | Lost? He travelled round in circles and found a cheap inn (6) |
| EGAN | Ever Decreasing Circles and Downton Abbey star Peter began heading off (4) |
| TOE | With "tick" and "tack", the game noughts and crosses; or, one of the digits of the human foot (3) |
| RANKIN | Author of the Inspector Rebus novels including Knots and Crosses, Hide and Seek and Strip Jack (6) |
| EXODUS | Book used for playing features part of noughts and crosses game? (6) |
| NOUGHTS | - and crosses; paper-and-pencil game for two players (7) |
