| SLIPSTITCH | Fielders longing to catch team's opener One offers little in the way of catching material (4,6) |
| OCEANIC | Desperate once to catch Australian opener, one caught in the deep |
| OOMPH | Appeal with some vigour when opener one short of a ton? (5) |
| TAINT | Brown tin-opener, one intrinsic flaw (5) |
| CORKSCREW | First of sixes secured by Irish team's opener |
| HAT | Bowler, say, has clipped team's opener (3) |
| PLEASANTRY | Bumpkins picked up little in the way of polite conversation (10) |
| BACKBITING | Little in the way of support for such spiteful talk! |
| LACERATION | Helping to support learner, one offers rent (10) |
| CORKACREWS | Irish county's team's openers (10) |
| SKINNY | Pub in elevated region having had little in the way of food? (6) |
| APPEASER | One offers concessions in a shopping centre to wipe out first of retailers to go back (8) |
| NOTMUCHTOLOOKAT | There's little in the way of scenery that's unprepossessing (3,4,2,4,2) |
| SCRUB | There's little in the way of vegetation, so clean it (5) |
| IBIDEM | One offer at the auction for half the object in the same place (6) |
| BLEAT | Grouse having little in the way of rhythm (5) |
| SWEET | Little in the way of pudding |
| SWEETPEA | Little in the way of vegetable flower (5,3) |
| TIARA | Little in the way of Emirati Arab headgear (5) |
| CURRENTACCOUNT | A Tale of the Riverbank that offers little or no interest? (7,7) |
