| ENVIRONS | Goes round Edgbaston's boundaries with five implements with which to hit ball |
| SATURNINE | Gloomy enclosure in which to hit the hay |
| ROUTEMARCH | Slog brings big defeat - Edgbaston's beginning a demonstration (5,5) |
| GRIEG | In cricket, Edgbaston's principal scorer (5) |
| SWANNECK | Ex-England spin bowler knocks out no boundaries with two turns (4,4) |
| SPATULAS | Implements with a flat elongated form used for stirring mixtures or spreading ointments (8) |
| ICEPICKS | Pointed implements with handles used by climbers to cross snowy slopes (3,5) |
| TEENAGER | Spotted person hit ball from here with anger, rattled (8) |
| VOLLEYED | Hit ball at net |
| LONGHOPS | Short-pitched, easily hit balls in cricket (4,4) |
| LOUDOUTS | Solidly hit balls, usually directly at a fielder, in baseball |
| PAINTBRUSH | Bristled implement with which to create a masterpiece or stipple a wall; or, a plant with flowers resembling colour-dipped sables (10) |
| OAR | Implement with which to paddle, row, scull, sweep or proverbially stir, meddle or muddy the waters (3) |
| CUE | Occasionally crude wooden item used to hit ball (3) |
| GLOBAL | All-embracing girl about to hit ball high into the air (6) |
| TROWEL | Implement with which to lay it on? (6) |
| STRIKE | Failure to hit ball means success for bowler |
| RESERVE | Player about to hit ball |
| SHIPLOFTER | Nine-iron used to hit balls off an ocean liner? |
| CRICKETBAT | Wooden tool to hit balls (7,3) |
