| SNOWBOARDING | Winter Olympic sport inspired by skiing which involves descending down the white winter blanket without poles and was first played in 1965 |
| KILLARNEY | Town's anthem composer embraced by skiing great (9) |
| ALPINE | The form of skiing which is not Nordic |
| ERMINE | The white winter coat of the stoat, represented with black flecks as a heraldic fur and traditionally used to trim robes of royalty and peers (6) |
| LUGE | Winter Olympic sport which is also a small one or two person sled that rhymes with huge and was first played in the 1870s |
| NORDICSKIING | Winter Olympic sport in which the athletes are free to rise on their toes: 2 wds. |
| LABYRINTH | Beijing 2022 - Series of quick curves on the icy track in the Winter Olympic sport of Skeleton |
| KISSMEKATE | 1948 musical by Cole Porter, the story of which involves the production of a version of The Taming Of The Shrew (4,2,4) |
| BOBSLEIGH | Winter Olympic sport in which teams of two race on narrow iced tracks and was first played in the 1870s |
| ICE | ___ hockey Winter Olympic sport in which two teams use sticks to shoot a rubber puck and was first played in the 19th century |
| OVERTHEWICKET | In cricket, the style of rightarm bowling which involves passing to the left of the non-striker's stumps in the run-up (4,3,6) |
| NORDIC | Winter Olympic sport; _ skiing (6) |
| CROSSCOUNTRY | ___ skiing was an original Winter Olympic sport (5-7) |
| SNOBBISH | Short winter blanket at hostelry is from hotel - the elitist type (8) |
| CURLING | Winter Olympic sport that has been nicknamed 'chess on ice' (7) |
| LUGES | Toboggans ridden in a supine position in one of the winter Olympic sports (5) |
| PONCHO | A blanket with a hole for the head (6) |
| HALO | Military science first-person shooter game published by Microsoft which involves an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant |
| ANEURYSM | Cardiovascular disease which involves widening of an artery, caused by weakening of the artery wall (8) |
| ICESKATING | Winter, Olympic sport |
