| GOLDENDUCK | First ball dismissal (6,4) |
| ASHWIN | After South African Bert Vogler in 1907, the first spinner to take a wicket off the first ball of a Test innings. (6) |
| STOLEN | Nicked to first slip, Len caught the first ball (6) |
| SERVESUP | Dishes out a lob as the first ball? |
| OPENER | Key possibly to one facing first ball (6) |
| SOURCE | Little weight after first ball on rebound |
| CRIBBAGE | Game played in infancy with first ball (8) |
| STARTS | Throws out the first ball |
| DUCK | Golden ___, out first ball in cricket (4) |
| SERVE | Do hit the first ball at Wimbledon? (5) |
| GUIDANCE | Little heraldic Red Indian's first ball, maybe given by a dog (8) |
| STRIKE | Act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball of a frame in ten-pin bowling (6) |
| OBSERVER | Outside broadcast gets player hitting first ball to spectator (8) |
| TEEOFF | The action of hitting the first ball to begin play at a hole in golf (3,3) |
| MURTAGH | Deliverer of Ireland's first ball in Tests. (7) |
| LAL | Bowler of the first ball in a World Cup, in 1975, Madan ... (3) |
| KINGPAIR | Cricketing term for an instance of a batsman being out first ball for zero in both innings |
| GOOGLE | Look up briefly, facing your first ball at Lord's (6) |
| AMIDSERVICE | When a racket hits the first ball at Wimbledon? |
| ROBOTIC | Joe, say picks first ball nice in the middle, it's automatic (7) |
