| GLANCE | A momentary look or darting of the eye; or, a deflection of a cricket ball off the bat to the leg side (6) |
| SNICK | Knot in thread; or, a slight deflection of a cricket ball off the edge of a bat (5) |
| GLIDE | In cricket, a stroke in which the ball is deflected off the bat to the leg side; a glance (5) |
| HOOK | In cricket, a deflection of the ball to the legside with a bat raised above shoulder level (4) |
| CRACK | The term used to describe the sound of the ball off the bat (5) |
| SKIPPERS | Informal word for captains of ships or of cricket teams; participants in double Dutch; or, darting butterflies in the Hesperiidae family (8) |
| SHORTLEG | Fielding position in cricket near the batter designed to catch balls off the bat and leg pad (5,3) |
| GLANCES | Flies off at an angle and takes a momentary look at it (7) |
| PULLHITTERS | They bat to the same side as they stand |
| IRIS | Part of the eye or a flower |
| LENS | Part of the eye or a camera |
| WEEPINGWILLOW | Crying to the bat to look decorative with pendent branches (7-6) |
| BAIT | I have the bat to tempt you with |
| LID | A cover, such as a palpebra of an eye or a top of a dustbin, jar, pen, piano, pie etc; or, a hat or a helmet (3) |
| SHINER | A mackerel or any small silvery fish with glittering scales; a polisher; or, slang for a rainbow, a black eye or a bright coin, such as a sovereign (6) |
| HOLE | An aperture, such as an animal's burrow, a cup in a green for a golf ball, a needle's eye or a potato in a sock (4) |
| DELIVERY | Manner or style of giving a speech; or, the bowling of a cricket ball (8) |
| SLOG | A bash, clout or smite; a wallop of a cricket ball; a heavy trudge; or, toil (4) |
| MAUL | A loose scrum formed around a player with a ball off the ground in rugby union (4) |
| URN | The Ashes ..., container believed to hold the remains of a cricket ball (3) |
