| KINGPAIR | Cricketing term for an instance of a batsman being out first ball for zero in both innings |
| PAIR | Cricketing term for a batter's dismissal for a duck (score of zero) in both innings (4) |
| AFFLUX | Old term for an instance of flowing, eg of blood to the head |
| OUT | A dismissal in cricket results in a batsman being declared ... (3) |
| DUCK | Golden ___, out first ball in cricket (4) |
| LEGSPIN | Cricketing term for a type of bowling (3-4) |
| EXAMPLE | What was once plenty for an instance (7) |
| ALLISION | This word, meaning "the act or an instance of a ship striking a stationary object," spiked after the collapse in March of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge |
| RUN | In baseball, an instance of a batter touching all four bases safely (3) |
| BAGEL | Name of a ring-shaped bread roll, hence a word for zero in tennis (5) |
| OPENER | In cricket, a batsman who plays the first ball of an innings (6) |
| APPEAL | In cricket, a loud call to the umpire asking for the dismissal of a batsman (6) |
| ASHWIN | After South African Bert Vogler in 1907, the first spinner to take a wicket off the first ball of a Test innings. (6) |
| OVERDRIVE | Cricketing terms for a state of intense activity |
| COLLAPSE | An instance of a structure falling down or giving way (8) |
| OUTANDOUT | Unqualified batsman's fate in both innings? (3-3-3) |
| DESPAIR | Misery for man getting duck in both innings (7) |
| STRIKE | Act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball of a frame in ten-pin bowling (6) |
| LAL | Bowler of the first ball in a World Cup, in 1975, Madan ... (3) |
| TESTDRIVE | First spin in cricket match getting shot of a batsman |
