| GATTING | Mike _; English cricketer (7) |
| LEIGH | Mike _, English director of films including Vera Drake (2004) |
| OLDFIELD | Mike _, English musician and composer best known for 1973 album Tubular Bells (8) |
| BOYCOTT | Geoffrey _; English cricketer (7) |
| TRUEMAN | Fred _; English cricketer and fast bowler (7) |
| CRAWLEY | Zak _, English cricketer who recently made his maiden Test century against Pakistan (7) |
| STEWART | Alec ___, English cricketer born in 1963 nicknamed 'The Gaffer' (7) |
| STOKES | Ben _; English cricketer (6) |
| MALAN | Dawid ___, English cricketer |
| ALI | Moeen ___, English cricketer (3) |
| CURRAN | Sam _, English cricketer who plays for England and Surrey (6) |
| WISDEN | John _, English cricketer who launched his Cricketers' Almanack in 1864 (6) |
| HAMMOND | Wally -, 1903-1965, English cricketer (7) |
| PACEMAN | Computer game absorbing English cricketer (7) |
| COWDREY | First man to play 100 Tests and first English cricketer to be given a peerage (7) |
| WGGRACE | English cricketer, born 1848, one of the sport's greats (1,1,5) |
| ROOTOUT | Get rid of thug losing head behind English cricketer (4,3) |
| BEDSER | English cricketer plots English runs (6) |
| GEOFFREYBOYCOTT | English cricketer (8,7) |
| JACKRUSSELL | English cricketer who kept wicket for the national side from 1988 to 1998 (4,7) |
