| OFFSEASON | Less busy time to share drinks between the two cricket sides (3-6) |
| ONANDOFF | Occasionally in the two cricket sides |
| RATIONALE | Motivation to share drink (9) |
| INGESTS | Drinks between jokes. (7) |
| ADRIATICSEA | Bar Venice? Split the drink between the three of them (8,3) |
| BARCAR | Place to drink between the Aar and the D.A.R. |
| RUSHHOUR | Busy time to hurry douche, might one say? (4,4) |
| HIGHSEASON | Busy time to get intoxicated by salt |
| COVERSLIP | Two cricket positions may go under the microscope (5,4) |
| TWENTYTWO | Two cricket teams form this line on pitch for another game |
| AFINELINE | An excellent aphorism showing subtle distinction between the two |
| RUBOFFON | Get transferred to problem facing two cricket sides (3,3,2) |
| INTERDUOS | Between the two of us (chaps) |
| OFFCHANCE | Cricket side's opportunity? Only a slight possibility (3,6) |
| SECOND | Unit of time defined as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom" (6) |
| OFFANDON | Two cricket sides combined occasionally (3,3,2) |
| ONCEINABLUEMOON | What can make email bounce between two cricket sides very rarely (4,2,1,4,4) |
| LEGENDARY | Renowned cricket side's aim: always to restrict runs (9) |
| GLAMORGAN | Cricket side's knock covered by leader in Guardian newspaper |
| OFFPEAK | Out of condition spy broadcast at a less busy time (3-4) |
