| CRICKETBALL | Essential for an Ashes series or a backyard match, together with the bat, stumps and bails (7,4) |
| WICKET | Word for a small door in or near a larger one originally, later any gate; a loophole or grill; a box-office window; an arrangement of stumps and bails in cricket; or, a batter's innings (6) |
| SOLARSYSTEM | The sun together with the celestial bodies that revolve around it (5,6) |
| CANDLESTICK | Clubs together with the French to beat light carrier |
| ORCHESTRATE | Band together with the heartless engineer (11) |
| WICKETS | The two sets of stumps and bails used during a cricket match (7) |
| TOPEDGE | Georgia drank heavily to start with and produced a miscue with the bat (3,4) |
| ANVIL | A small bone in the middle ear that works together with the hammer (or a particular metalworking tool) |
| DROVE | What one will do when at the wheel is a stroke with the bat (5) |
| EXTRA | In cricket, a run scored other than by hitting the ball with the bat |
| DRIVE | What one will do when at the wheel is a stroke with the bat (5) |
| CUT | In cricket, a stroke made with the bat in an almost horizontal position (3) |
| GLANCE | A cricket stroke with the bat's face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly (6) |
| TELLTHETRUTH | Be honest - elevated accommodation left to most of them on square and American babe with the bat? (4,3,5) |
| SULTAN | Unbridled lust, an essential for an eastern ruler (6) |
| LEADOFF | Beginning a series or a process (4-3) |
| POKERFACE | 2023-present Natasha Lyonne crime series or a 2008 Lady Gaga hit: 2 wds. |
| ITSASIN | Acclaimed Channel 4 drama series or a 1987 Pet Shop Boys No 1 |
| UNION | No! It's back to uni and a get together with the workers (5) |
| ENERGID | The nucleus of a cell together with the mass of protoplasm around it (7) |
