Possible Clues:

• Battered old tabloid model's gone on the game
• Game needing double top
• Top game?
• Chinese spool-on-string balancing skill
• Help up then hit up taking nothing from game
• Game involving spinning a top on a string
• Top-on-a-string game
• Devilish children's game?
• Top-on-a-string pastime
• It's the very devil to catch the top on string (7)