Possible Clues:

• Game played with a cue
• Indoor sport
• Evil One stopping poet's game
• Crows, for example, about all I messed up in sport
• Game fellow one's seen crossing a road
• Game fowl, including all I shot
• Playing this, is ball I'd planned to pot right?
• Game all I cooked in partridges etc
• Game? Poet's written about harmful one
• Game bird is all excited