Billiards terminology
Across
- 2. The initial action of any game of billiards
- 3. A shot designed to be intentionally defensive, and to make the opponent's following shot harder
- 5. Stick used to strike ball into object balls
- 6. Tip of cue that has not been properly maintained, will result in miscues
- 9. An aiming technique done by imagining a contact point
- 10. The initial formation of the object balls, or the item used to make the formation
- 14. Inside walls of a pocket
- 15. A series of successful shots
- 16. The padding on the rails
- 17. White markers on top of the rails of the table
- 19. A table which has no object balls potted yet
- 20. Verb, to sink a ball into a pocket
Down
- 1. Position of the cue ball. Can be 'Good' or 'Bad'
- 4. A singular game of billiards, from the rack to the game end
- 5. Striking an object ball off of a non object ball into a pocket
- 7. Generally pocketing the cue ball or failing to hit the desired ball will result in this
- 8. Used to move the ball backwards
- 11. Striking one object ball off of another to sink the second
- 12. A complete sequence of shots never allowing the opponent to have a turn
- 13. The holes where object balls are sunk
- 18. Stickers on the table's surface to determine racking position