| ARRANT | Justify losing wicket for 25 (6) |
| EIDER | England's opener in weird mix-up, losing wicket for a duck (5) |
| INDICATE | To point out and justify losing five (8) |
| ENDEAR | Tail deteriorate after losing wicket and appeal (6) |
| EIGHTY | Momentous, losing wicket twenty short of a hundred (6) |
| WRETCH | Losing wicket makes him sick, poor chap (6) |
| BOLERO | Dance when cricketer, losing wicket, gets duck (6) |
| NARINE | All-rounder with 208 wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders, equalling the record for most wickets for a single team in T20 cricket.(Last Name) (6) |
| KNOTTY | Like Gordius, who once kept wicket for England? (6) |
| RAWEST | The least trained got the most difficult to obtain wicket for a run (6) |
| SEESAW | Marks a wicket for pitch |
| WHATIF | Following on after wicket for one bowler, I suppose (4,2) |
| HADLEE | Sir Richard ......, bowler who took 431 wickets for New Zealand in Test cricket (6) |
| DEEPTI | Who took six wickets for India and won the player of the match award in the third women's ODI versus West Indies in Vadodara on December 27, 2024? (6) |
| IODINE | Symbolically, it looks like one solution for 25? (6) |
| ALEXIS | ROLE PLAYED BY NANCY LEE FOR 25 YEARS |
| MAGNUS | Host of the BBC's Mastermind for 25 years, Iceland's ... Magnuson |
| INGROUP | Closely knit bunch batting, mature but losing wicket (2-5) |
| INNINGS | Chance to score prize money after losing wicket |
| IDEST | Losing wicket from delivery so unreachable? I mean to say! |
