| RECKONS | Judges a form of conkers |
| CHESTNUT | Tree fruit for game of conkers (8) |
| RECKON | Calculate new shape of conker |
| BENCH | Group of bishops or judges; a pew; or, a platform in a greenhouse (5) |
| MAROON | From French for "chestnut", a brownish-crimson colour, like the shell of such a conker; or, a firework that makes a loud bang, akin to the noise of a chestnut bursting in a fire (6) |
| ARBITER | One judges a disputed issue (7) |
| CRITIC | One who judges a literary work (6) |
| UMPS | Perhaps judges a broken sump (4) |
| SEED | Unit of botanical life such as an acorn, bean, conker, kernel, key, nut, pea, pip or stone; a fragment of coral; a bubble in glass; or, a small crystal from which a larger one is grown (4) |
| ONER | Informal word for a big lie; a conker that has won a single match; an expert; a heavy blow; a quid, old £1 note or £100; or, a unique or extraordinary person or thing (4) |
| NUT | An acorn, conker, filbert or other such indehiscent fruit; a hard gingery biscuit; a lump of coal; one's head; a sky goddess; or, a young blood (3) |
| CANTANKEROUS | A conker's a nut - can be prickly, too! |
| HORSECHESTNUT | Fool around and box with a crank ___ it"ll make you conkers! (5,8) |
| CHESTNUTS | Horse -; bearing mahogany-brown conkers in autumn, deciduous trees of parks and village greens (9) |
| STRING | Length of cord/twine used in games including conkers and cat's cradle (6) |
| YUCCA | Plant starts to yield up cones, conkers, apples (5) |
| HORSE | Tree that produces conkers (5,8) |
| HORSECHESTNUTS | Drug is safe, bonkers to follow conkers (5,9) |
| SMOKESCREENS | Seems conkers are used as red herrings (12) |
| COCKERSPANIELS | Dogs chew special conkers (6,8) |
