| WIDE | In cricket, a bowled ball that is outside the batsman's reach and scores a run for the batting side (4) |
| OFF | In cricket, a bowled ball that spins from off to leg on pitching (3,5) |
| BREAK | In cricket, a bowled ball that spins from off to leg on pitching (3,5) |
| LEGBYE | An extra run for the batting side? (3-3) |
| CUTADASH | Show some style and score a run? (3,1,4) |
| IVYLEAGUE | Vaguely wrong, that is, outside the best universities in the US (3,6) |
| BAMBOOZLE | The Spanish Zoom enthrals Barcelona first - a bowled over fool (9) |
| WIDES | Opener from weak side sprayed balls out of a batsman's reach (5) |
| OPENER | A player in cricket who starts the innings for the batting side (6) |
| HOMER | Hit in which the batter scores a run |
| OVER | What is a series of six bowled balls in cricket? (4) |
| SAC | ___ fly (out that scores a run) |
| OVERS | Sets of six correctly bowled balls in cricket |
| FOUR | Squash tennis is played by two people in a ___-walled court using a lively inflated ball that is the size of a tennis ball (4) |
| MAIDEN | Term for an over in cricket in which the batting side score no runs (6) |
| GIRAFFES | When two of these tall animals make a run for the finish line, the race is almost always neck and neck |
| CURVEBALL | Baseball: ball that is thrown with a spin so that it curves in the air (5,4) |
| SMITTEN | Cricket: a ball that is bowled with a spinning motion (6) |
| THINONTOP | Balding spinner going after most of the batting side in cricket (4,2,3) |
| DESANTIS | Ron, Republican Florida governor who announced in 2023 a run for the U.S. presidency (8) |
