| EDGBASTON | Cricket ground on which Brian Lara became the first batsman to score 500 runs in a first-class innings (9) |
| HEAD | Identify the surname of this Australian cricketer who has scored more than 500 runs in the recent Ashes series. (4) |
| CHIP | May win a roulette token in a first-class joint (4) |
| BIRDLAND | Short-lived medical drama of 1994 on which Brian Dennehy starred as a psychiatrist |
| ACETATE | Find some artificial fibre in a first-class gallery (7) |
| TUESDAY | Ruby _, Rolling Stones smash on which Brian Jones plays recorder (7) |
| GAYLE | First batsman to score a 100 at the T20 Cricket World Cup, albeit in a losing cause |
| ZAHEER | Former Pakistani cricketer who was the first batsman to score three consecutive centuries in one-day internationals (6,5) |
| ABBAS | Former Pakistani cricketer who was the first batsman to score three consecutive centuries in one-day internationals (6,5) |
| ZAHEERABBAS | Former Pakistani cricketer who was the first batsman to score three consecutive centuries in one-day internationals (6,5) |
| MAURICERICHARD | Canadian ice hockey player who was the first to score 50 goals in one season and the first to score 500 goals in a career |
| UNO | Game in which the object is to be the first player to score 500 points |
| MAX | Wakefield Trinity full-back; first player in British rugby league history to score 500 points in a season (3,6) |
| JOWITT | Wakefield Trinity full-back; first player in British rugby league history to score 500 points in a season (3,6) |
| SUNILGAVASKAR | First batsman to score 10,000 Test runs (5,8) |
| OPEN | Be the first batsman, to be frank (4) |
| FINAL | Last of the first in first, in a first of the last (5) |
| GAVASKAR | Sunil, first batsman to 10,000 Test runs (8) |
| KATICH | First batsman to post 1500-plus run in Sheffield Shield season (6) |
| LANYARD | Beam erected in ground, on which hangs a whistle? (7) |
