| CLEANSUP | Wins the pools and sweeps, perhaps (6,2) |
| CLEANUP | Win a pool and sweep, perhaps (5,2) |
| SOO | Who was Sooty and Sweep's panda friend in the 1960s TV puppet show? (3) |
| CHIMNEY | It's Sooty and Sweep's workplace? (7) |
| NICHOLAS | Only Pools and Horses, _ Lyndhurst (8) |
| AIRBRUSH | Touch up, freshen and sweep |
| POTHOLES | The pools could have formed in them |
| SWIMMERS | They fill in the pools (8) |
| POTHOLER | Caver runs after the pool's disturbed |
| BARGAMES | Pool and darts, often |
| LAP | Trip to the end of the pool and back |
| TRIANGLE | Sonorous instrument struck with a beater to sound like a bell; a frame used in pool and snooker; or, a three-sided polygon (8) |
| ONELAP | Across the pool and back |
| POLO | Horsey hockey around the pool and in it! (4) |
| GOOFFTHEDEEPEND | Dive in the pool and become angry? (2,3,3,4,3) |
| MAKESABIGSPLASH | Does a bellyflop in the pool and attracts much attention (5,1,3,6) |
| WHITE | Colour of the cue ball in snooker, pool and billiards; or, the author of Charlottes Web and The Trumpet of the Swan (5) |
| GLOVEPUPPETS | Good to adore whelp and darlings Sooty and Sweep? (5,7) |
| TROUT | "Where the pools are bright and deep / Where the gray ____ lies asleep" (James Hogg) |
| STAKE | Post the money for the pools entry? (5) |
