| GIBBS | L R ?, West Indies Test cricketer who took 7-98 against India at Mumbai in 1975 |
| SARWAN | R R ?, West Indies Test cricketer who hit 291 against England in Bridgetown in 2009 |
| YARDLEY | B -, Australia Test cricketer who took 7-98 against West Indies in Sydney in 1982 (7) |
| BEDI | B S ?, India Test cricketer who took 7-98 against Australia at Calcutta in 1969 (4) |
| KALLICHARRAN | A I ___, West Indies Test cricketer who hit 187 against India at Mumbai in 1978 (12) |
| FLETCHER | K W R ___, England Test cricketer who hit 113 against India at Mumbai in 1973 (8) |
| SHAH | OA, England cricketer who made his Test debut against India at Mumbai in 2006 (4) |
| GREIG | Tony, England Test cricketer who scored 148 against India at Mumbai in 1973 (5) |
| PARADIDDLE | Tongue-twister-like imitative word for a drummer's choreography in a quad of beats, where sticks perform rapid R L R R / L R L L repeats (10) |
| SONORANT | In phonetics, a frictionless speech sound (l, r, m etc.) produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract (8) |
| JACOBINS | "The Black ___," C. L. R. James book about participants in the Haitian Revolution |
| LENS | The "L" of S.L.R. |
| DILBERT | It'd be L->R in a comic strip |
| BESSEMER | Alabama city where Amazon "interfered with [its] employees' exercise of a free and reasoned choice" in a warehouse-worker unionization vote, per a November, 2021, N.L.R.B. ruling |
| NDA | Part of a severance contract that may be illegal, per an N.L.R.B. ruling: Abbr. |
| TROLLS | L. R. lost the little men. |
| LABOR | Part of N.L.R.B. |
| FSTOPS | S.L.R. settings |
| MORIARTY | L/R switch of morality for 9 5 nemesis (8) |
| TRINIDADIAN | Nationality of Winifred Atwell, Ato Boldon and C L R James (11) |