Related Clues:

• Select card-game � one's raised to shut opponents out
• Protection for king, perhaps stalemate at game
• Strong defence to tie the game
• Defensive element in card game after selection of cards?
• Tie suited game as possible means of access
• Attraction supplied by game in feature of castle?
• Stalemate, perhaps, with game's castle defence
• Neither win nor lose game -- it's a let-down
• A sort of adjustable spanner
• Keep protection with cutting through dreary escarpment
• Take point from game that's raised by defenders
• This may help protect castle in game following stalemate
• Charge back for game with one of those watery defenders used to closing things down
• To tie game one may have been deployed in defence
• Up-and-down opener in no-win situation, some fiddle