| KEEPING | Being behind the wicket, a barrel may hold a sort of pine (7) |
| CICADA | Insect that chirps roughly holds a sort of acid (6) |
| INAFIX | At the wicket a fellow held back team, facing trouble? (2,1,3) |
| INNARDS | ... and where barrels may be unloaded losing last of many in interior regions (7) |
| HUON | Sort of pine for Hugh, say, still available (4) |
| SCOTS | Highlanders' sort of pine, native to Britain (5) |
| RODEO | Where barrels may be seen |
| DEFLATE | Fed up with being behind the clock, let the air out of one's tyres (7) |
| IMPASSE | Admit to being behind the times in a dead end (7) |
| WASHOUT | Following wicket a cheer, match abandoned due to rain? (7) |
| CURATOR | One may hold a key to the past (7) |
| FINELEG | Fielder behind the wicket (4,3) |
| ARMBAND | One may hold a jogger's phone |
| LATERAN | Being behind schedule, raced to the Pope's church (7) |
| ARREARS | State of being behind with payments (7) |
| TORONTO | City aware of being behind hill (7) |
| LATENCE | Time delay, being behind time before National Curriculum comes to early end (7) |
| DRINKDRIVING | Being behind the wheel and under the influence (5-7) |
| SEVENTH | Keep quiet about race, say, being behind six others |
| OUTDATED | Disclosed about most of data being behind the times (8) |
