| STUMP | One of the three uprights of a wicket; or, an artist's tortillon (5) |
| BAIL | One of the two wooden crosspieces of a wicket; or, a hooped handle of a bucket or kettle (4) |
| STUMPS | The uprights of a cricket wicket (6) |
| GATE | Northern dialect for a path, street or way; a wicket or other hinged barrier in a fence, hedge or wall; a portal; a hole or aperture, such as the eye of a needle; or, a mountain pass (4) |
| SMUDGER | Journo slang for a photographer; a besmircher, smearer, stump, tortillon or other blending, blurring or rubbing person/thing; or, a fumigator (7) |
| CHARCOAL | Burnt vine or willow twig used as a medium for drawing, often with a blending stump or tortillon (8) |
| STAND | A partnership of two cricketers batting at the wicket or the runs made during it (5) |
| POSTS | Bugle-calls; uprights of goals; or, vertical parts of crochet stitches (5) |
| BERET | Cap for a member of the Navy or an artist |
| RISER | Upright of a step (5) |
| EASEL | Wooden support for a blackboard or an artist's canvas (5) |
| BAILS | In cricket, the crosspieces bridging the three stumps to form a wicket (5) |
| RIGGER | One who attends to the tackle of a sailing ship; a parachute packer; a roughneck; a stage hand or other worker skilled in setting up pulleys, scaffolding or theatrical equipment; or, an artist's long- |
| SHEEP | Lamb's sweep yields a wicket, taken by Hasaranga at first (5) |
| JAMB | Post that forms the side part or upright of a door or window frame (4) |
| NAWAB | Top Indian catch snared a wicket (5) |
| ALIVE | Animated after a wicket setback (5) |
| MUSE | The name of a band, or an artist's inspiration |
| GATEMONEY | The cost of a wicket? (4-5) |
| LEGSTUMP | Get plums (anag) - part of a wicket (3,5) |
