| KEEPITORSHOVEIT | Home game version of stud in which players have a choice on whether to retain or pass to the left ea |
| BELTS | Strips or leather or other materials worn around the waist or across the chest to retain or support clothes or to carry a weapon |
| LOWHOLECARDWILD | Seven-card stud in which the smallest card each player has face down and all others of the same rank |
| TAR | Top player snapping off front tip of stud in pitch |
| SNAP | Simple card game in which players have to spot pairs of cards of the same rank (4) |
| GUANO | Ultimately daring adult to take part in game in which players have to pick up manure (5) |
| PORT | Alcoholic drink: too much to pass to the left? |
| BLOC | International alliance British pass to the left |
| SNAILSPACE | Slow tempo of "Studs in Space" (6,4) |
| TEAM | The players have a drink at "The Monk's Head" (4) |
| TUTTIFRUTTI | All the players have a rhyme for "ice cream" |
| ANTERIOR | Retain or rebuild front (8) |
| DEMO | Free game version, perhaps |
| BETA | Pre-release video game version |
| JERRYGARCIA | In a 2020 constable race in Texas, an incumbent of this name defeated a same-named rival who was recruited in what was called a dirty trick; no word on whether either plays guitar |
| UNDEROVER | Dice game in which players bet on whether the outcome will be below or above seven |
| TBSP | Abbreviation of a cookery measure equal to 15ml depending on whether rounded, level or heaped (1,1,1,1) |
| SPREADBETTING | Type of gambling based on whether the price of an asset will rise or fall (6,7) |
| AQUEOUS | ___ is a fluid through which oxygen pass to the lens shape of the refracts light rays (7) |
| DECLARED | In cricket, the status of an innings when a captain ends it before all the players have been dismissed (8) |
