Across
- 2. In a team of 3 or more the player who delivers his bowl last
- 3. The action performed by a player to propel the bowl from the mat end of the rink to the head at the other end of the rink
- 5. Playing a bowl so that it moves the jack from its current position to a position further sideways or backwards along the rink
- 8. A bowl whose front edge, which is closest to the bowler on the mat, is level with the front edge of the jack
- 9. A partially completed end that has to be replayed by reason of the jack going outside the rink or green boundaries or an umpire ruling that due to an action the head cannot be returned to its previous state
- 10. A marker placed on the bank to indicate the outside boundary of a rink
- 12. The natural curve built into a bowl
- 14. A type of grass (also known as Titdwarf a Bermuda grass hybrid) used for the construction of lawn bowls greens
- 17. The bowl closest to the jack, often in relation to other bowls surrounding the head
- 18. Whose role it is to fill in the scorecards agree the match up of rinks between teams tally the total scores of all rinks at the end of a game and submit the results to the selectors
- 21. Used to indicate a bowl that has touched the jack as part of its initial delivery during an end
- 23. In a team of 3 or more the player who delivers his bowl immediately after the lead
- 25. The position a player adopts in preparation for delivering the bowl
- 26. Deliver the bowl with sufficient weight to finish 1 yard past the objective
- 28. A warm up end without scoring to enable players to test their bowls in the conditions before a game starts
- 29. The width of the bowl required to enable it to stop at a designated point within the rink
- 31. The small white ball that defines the target for all other bowls to be played towards
- 33. A type of thick liquid compound applied to the surface of a bowl which is then rubbed into the surface using a hand or cloth or sleeve
- 34. A bowl delivered with more force than required to deliver it to a desired position on the rink
- 35. If a bowl is delivered and finishes to the outer side of the intended target it is said to have been....
- 36. A bowl delivered finishes close to the jack, without the need to move or touch other bowls in the head
Down
- 1. A bowl that remains in direct physical contact with the jack after being delivered
- 4. A device that enables players who have an inability to bend as part of a standard delivery action to bowl in an upright position
- 6. The player who delivers his bowl first
- 7. A bowl delivered where the biased side of the bowl has been placed opposite to the desired position for a given delivery
- 9. A bowl delivered with the maximum force that a player can exert the aim being to kill the end disturb the head or hit opposition bowls out of the head
- 11. The side of the rink that has the clearest path for a draw shot
- 13. A piece of material placed under a bowl to hold it in place on the green when measuring
- 15. For a right handed player delivering a bowl to the right hand side of the rink with the bias facing towards the centre line of the rink
- 16. A bowls surface made of man made materials, as compared to grass greens
- 19. A bowl positioned on the green such that it would stop an opponents bowl from reaching a defined point
- 20. An official nominated by the competition organiser to provide adjudication of the rules of competition and to interpret the rules of bowls in the event of a dispute
- 22. A piece of equipment used by an umpire to measure a relative short distance between the jack and one or more bowls
- 24. A bowl placed behind the head, positioned so that if the opposition trails the jack from its current position towards the back of the rink this bowl may become shot or reduce the number of shots that the opposition may have
- 27. The area surrounding a green usually identifiable as a shallow trench at the edges of the green
- 29. The way a player holds the bowl in preparation for delivery
- 30. A jack when delivered that stops at a point less than the minimum length allowed within the rules of competition
- 32. When a bowl is deflected during its progress after delivery from contacting a bowl or jack