| SCRABBLE | Word-based board game (8) |
| TRIVIAL | ___ Pursuit, quiz-based board game (7) |
| GEV | War-based board game |
| TICKETTORIDE | 1965 Beatles single; railway-based board game |
| CLUE | Logic-based board game |
| HANGMAN | Word-based guessing game (7) |
| LINGO | Word-based game show hosted by Chuck Woolery from 2002 to 2007 |
| BEE | Spelling ___ (word-based competition) |
| ADULTSPELLINGBEE | Word-based competition for grown-ups |
| PUNS | Word-based jokes (4) |
| MYBLUFF | Call _ _, Long-running word-based panel (2,5) |
| GAS | A word, based on the Greek for "chaos", for a state of matter, such as carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen, ozone or xenon (3) |
| LEISURE | Word, based on the Latin for "be allowed" and subject of a poem by W H Davies, for one's free time (7) |
| RUSE | Word, based on a hunting term for a detour, turn or other trick made by the quarry to escape the hounds, for a cunning artifice or stratagem (4) |
| TOD | Word, based on a name for a frog's porwiggle, for a jot; or, a little boy (3) |
| SHEAVE | Word, based on "disc, pane of glass, slice of a loaf", for a pulley-wheel; or, an impure fleck in finished paper (6) |
| CLERISY | Word, based on "heritage", for the intelligentsia or literati as a class or group, as opposed to the laity (7) |
| GAB | Word, based on slang for the mouth, for chatter, prattle or tittle-tattle one is said to have the gift of when fluent (3) |
| MURID | Zoological word, based on "mouse", for a rodent of a very large family that includes the aforementioned beastie plus most species of gerbils, rats and voles (5) |
| HOCUSPOCUS | Word, based on conjurers' sham Latin magic incantation hax pax max Deus adimax, for abracadabra, deception, jugglery, prestidigitation, mumbo-jumbo or trickery (5-5) |
