| SPINNERS | Cricketers in a folk group (8) |
| ONTHE | Cheating as part of a folk group? (2,3,6) |
| FIDDLE | Cheating as part of a folk group? (2,3,6) |
| THIRDMAN | Cricketer in a Graham Greene story (5,3) |
| SOMERSET | Cricketers in their season, we hear, ready to begin (8) |
| SCULLION | Irish folk group in narrow boat is charged (8) |
| DEDANANN | Folk group formed in Galway in 1975 (2,6) |
| BROTHERS | Seminal folk group (6,8) |
| ELEVEN | Number of cricketers in a team who can bat or bowl in a game (6) |
| ALLROUNDERS | Cricketers in a game bagging a couple of fifties |
| STEELPAN | Folk group with eyes out for instrument |
| ATHERTON | Cricketer, in awful heat, getting runs -- 100 (8) |
| TWENTYTWO | All of the cricketers in a line on pitch? (6-3) |
| OXIDE | Rust, for instance, is thus featuring some team of cricketers in a poem (5) |
| SHORTLEG | Position of cricketer in brief stage of journey (5,3) |
| LOCHLOMOND | Celebrated in a folk song and forming part of the region that contains the Great Trossachs Forest, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland by surface area (4,6) |
| COCKLES | Sung about in a folk song celebrating Molly Malone, edible molluscs traditionally sold by the pint in London pubs or eaten as seaside snacks (7) |
| REDHEN | "Little" wheat grower in a folk tale |
| ERIN | Bedelia's home, in a folk song |
| ALICE | Restaurateur in a folk song |
