| EXTORTION | Blackmail English team hosting wrong side at Lord's |
| QUONDAM | Former Queen Mother supporting upper-class side at Lords |
| ONSTRIKE | Side at Lord's hit out (2,6) |
| AMUSEMENT | Recreation ground - men's team hosting United (9) |
| ASARULE | A Northern rugby team hosting rugby usually (2,1,4) |
| RESIDUE | Remains on team hosting United (7) |
| LEGION | Number one to separate sides at Lord's? |
| ONANDOFF | Sides at Lord's switch positions (2,3,3) |
| LIONS | Three ---, a 1996 song by The Lightning Seeds to mark the England football team's hosting of the European Championships (5) |
| EXILED | English team in a row, losing at home, is sent abroad |
| RADIUM | Looking back, English team contacts development authority at end of war ? it's radioactive! (6) |
| EXHILARATE | Thrill when English team, including Hammond initially, takes 3rd and then 2nd in rally at speed ... |
| DOUGLASJARDINE | English cricketer best known for captaining the English team during the 1932-33 'Bodyline' Ashes tour of Australia |
| SEXTET | Group of players in first eleven chasing goals ultimately at times, for starters, for the English team (6) |
| EXITED | Left English team with hooligan (6) |
| EMANATE | Send forth an English team abroad (7) |
| EXILE | Refugee in English team meeting the French (5) |
| EXIGUITY | Poorness of English team, half-heartedly shamefaced (8) |
| EXIGENT | Demanding chap behind English team (7) |
| PIXEL | "Climbing record broken by English team" - small picture feature (5) |
