| ORALEXAM | Live test match beginning after embarrassment of real unknown getting a duck first (4,4) |
| ANDYWARHOL | Director before struggle with unknown getting a break (4,6) |
| OVAL | Little Valentine got a duck first on the Christchurch ground (4) |
| SUPERNATURAL | Bats turn up as real, unknown to science |
| RUBICUND | Ruddy duck's first past point of no return, we hear (8) |
| PLETHORA | Guilty, perhaps, of smothering Norse god with an embarrassment of riches (8) |
| GRAFFITI | Player of tennis match beginning to inspire artwork |
| PERICULA | Which dangers am I to duck first? quae prima ____ vito? Aen. 3.367 |
| REDFACED | Holding a flush? The embarrassment of it! (3-5) |
| INTEGRAL | Part of the whole embarrassment of 'relating' (8) |
| REDSTART | Singer's beginning after looking embarrassed (8) |
| ANIL | Blue as a result of getting a duck? (4) |
| LINSEEDOIL | Batsman needs this, after batting in Leeds and getting a duck, then 49 (7,3) |
| BAMBOO | Explode a bomb, getting a duck in the grass (6) |
| OVERGRAZE | Misuse field in part of match, beginning to get level |
| TEAL | Slink about, first dismissed, getting a duck |
| SCOTER | Duck first of objects thrown out of vehicle? |
| YEARN | Have strong desire for new beginning after a long time (5) |
| ORIGIN | Beginning after last sign of tornado, to fix up home (6) |
| PERSAD | Rishi, TV sports presenter who fronted Channel 4's live Test cricket coverage in 2021 (6) |
