| GOWER | Leicestershire and Hampshire cricketer who scored 8,231 Test runs for England (5) |
| SHAUN | Former England, Middlesex and Hampshire cricketer nicknamed Shaggy (5,4) |
| BOYCOTT | Geoffrey ....... , cricketer who scored 8114 Test runs for England in 108 matches spanning 1964-82 (7) |
| UDAL | Former England, Middlesex and Hampshire cricketer nicknamed Shaggy (5,4) |
| PILOT | What do you call a TV programme that is test run for a possible future series? (5) |
| PRIMULA | Autobianchi's 1964 onwards front wheel-drive (FWD) saloon, designed by Giacosa as a test run for Fiat to start using FWD in its mainstream saloon models (7) |
| DEMO | Test run, for short |
| MADDY | Darren ___, 1993-2006 Leicestershire and 2007-2013 Warkwickshire all-rounder; 1999 England Test cricket debutant (5) |
| GOOCH | Graham _, former Essex and England cricket captain who scored 8,900 Test runs during his career (5) |
| MOEEN | England all-rounder, scored 3,094 Test runs and took 204 wickets before retiring in 2024 (5) |
| ABBAS | First Pakistan cricketer; in 1984, to 5,000 Test runs (5) |
| SUSAN | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More as Jolyon and ... Hampshire as Fleur |
| STEVE | Who was stranded at 9999 Test runs at the end of the recently-concluded Border-gavaskar Trophy? (5) |
| BRIAN | West Indian cricketer with the greatest number of Test runs, ... Lara |
| SUNIL | 'Little Master' with 10,122 Test runs, ... Gavaskar (5) |
| UMASS | Neighbor of Amherst and Hampshire |
| DEMOS | Test runs |
| BETAS | Test runs |
| RAHUL | Fourth-highest Test run-scorer, ... Dravid (5) |
| FLYER | Test run |
