Christmas word puzzle

Here is a word puzzle to exercise the grey cells after Christmas lunch. The challenge is to find as many words as you can relating to the game of croquet.

puzzle

Please send a list of the words you have found by no later than Sunday, 1 January 2017, to our resident quizmaster Paul Watson  who will exercise his usual discretion and diplomacy as to what is acceptable. The prize for finding the largest number of words will be a bottle of Chateau Pelouse en Pente.