| CUEBALL | In snooker, 'the white' (3,4) |
| BREAK | In snooker, the total points score achieved by a player in a single visit to the table (5) |
| BLACK | In snooker, the sevenball (5) |
| BROWN | In snooker, the colour of ball with a value of four points (5) |
| CUE | A pigtail, plait or twist of hair at the back of the head, hence a long thin stick for snooker; the last words of an actor's speech, serving as an intimation to the next histrio to speak; or, any prom |
| OSULLIVAN | Ronnie .' ........ , snooker's 'The Rocket' who won the 2001, 2004 and 2008 world championship (9) |
| MISCUES | Shots in snooker or billiards in which players fail to strike a ball properly (7) |
| MISCUED | Mishit in snooker |
| ENGLISH | Side in snooker, billiards (America) (7) |
| SCRATCH | Foul shot in snooker (7) |
| DOUBLES | Makes twice as many shots in snooker? (7) |
| SPINOFF | Incidental benefit from special shot in snooker (4-3) |
| MAXIMUM | A break of 147 points in snooker (7) |
| ODDBALL | Weird, just one of red, green, blue or black in snooker game? |
| CUEBALLS | The white balls struck with a cue in snooker games (3,5) |
| WHITE | Colour of the cue ball in snooker, pool and billiards; or, the author of Charlottes Web and The Trumpet of the Swan (5) |
| SPIDER | Long-legged rest in snooker used to raise the cue above the level of the height of the ball (6) |
| SEMICIRCLE | Shape of the area in which the cue ball is placed before breaking in snooker (10) |
| MISCUING | Term to describe mishitting the white ball in snooker |
| HANDKERCHIEF | Last three in snooker between employee and boss - blue one in the top pocket? (12) |
