| HAROLDLARWOOD | English cricketer, main exponent of "bodyline" bowling |
| AVERAGE | Cricketer's main concern? (7) |
| DOUGLASJARDINE | English cricketer best known for captaining the English team during the 1932-33 'Bodyline' Ashes tour of Australia |
| THIRTIES | Last century's decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of Ki |
| LARWOOD | Harold, England Test cricketer who bowled 'bodyline' in the 1932-3 tour of Australia (7) |
| LEG | English name for Bodyline, ... Theory (3) |
| JARDINE | English Bodyline captain, Douglas (7) |
| HAROLD | Bodyline bowler who emigrated to Australia (6,7) |
| HL | England's Bodyline pace spearhead, initials (2) |
| JACKFINGLETON | Bodyline series batsman who often clashed with Don Bradman (4,9) |
| PLUMWARNER | England's Bodyline tour manager whose real first name was Pelham (4,6) |
| OLDFIELD | Batsman knocked out by Harold Larwood in the third Bodyline Test, Bert ... (8) |
| BEDSER | English cricketer plots English runs (6) |
| TYSON | English cricketer of the 1950s, a fast bowler nicknamed 'Typhoon' |
| ROOT | English cricketer is 4 of 16? (4) |
| ROOTOUT | Get rid of thug losing head behind English cricketer (4,3) |
| GRACE | Old English cricketer's elegance of manner? |
| CBFRY | English cricketer and polymath described by John Arlott as "probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age" |
| CURRAN | Sam, English cricketer named Player of the Tournament in the 2022 Men's T20 World Cup (6) |
| WGGRACE | English cricketer, born 1848, one of the sport's greats (1,1,5) |