| SUNIL | 'Little Master' with 10,122 Test runs, ... Gavaskar (5) |
| GAVASKAR | Sunil, Indian batsman who scored 10,122 Test runs from 1971-87 (8) |
| SUNILGAVASKAR | Indian cricketer who scored 10,122 career Test runs (5,8) |
| STEVE | Who was stranded at 9999 Test runs at the end of the recently-concluded Border-gavaskar Trophy? (5) |
| HANIF | - Mohammad, Pakistan batsman known as the "Little Master" (5) |
| ABBAS | First Pakistan cricketer; in 1984, to 5,000 Test runs (5) |
| LINUS | The man Gavaskar rejected sounds appalling (5) |
| ROHAN | Younger Mr. Gavaskar (5) |
| BRIAN | West Indian cricketer with the greatest number of Test runs, ... Lara |
| GOOCH | Graham _, former Essex and England cricket captain who scored 8,900 Test runs during his career (5) |
| GOWER | Leicestershire and Hampshire cricketer who scored 8,231 Test runs for England (5) |
| MOEEN | England all-rounder, scored 3,094 Test runs and took 204 wickets before retiring in 2024 (5) |
| RAHUL | Fourth-highest Test run-scorer, ... Dravid (5) |
| HAULM | Surprise university master with potato stalks (5) |
| MARAT | Historic French master with a strange art (5) |
| EMEND | English master with finale to edit (5) |
| SMEAR | Master with no end of resentment created slur (5) |
| SMALL | Short second master with everything (5) |
| DOGMA | Follow master with a set of teachings (5) |
| DEMOS | Test runs |
