| OFFIE | Popular name for type of spin bowler (5) |
| UNDER | Holding to make most of spin bowler's play in broadcast (5,4,4) |
| SCORN | Mockery reflects name for types of legendary birds (5) |
| FANCY | Classification name for types of border and perpetual carnations (5) |
| CAT | Shortened name for type of multihull (3) |
| WOOD | Holding to make most of spin bowler's play in broadcast (5,4,4) |
| MILK | Holding to make most of spin bowler's play in broadcast (5,4,4) |
| OFFBREAK | Type of spin bowling (3-5) |
| LEGBREAK | Type of spin at cricket (8) |
| SHANE | Cricket's greatest ever leg-spin bowler (5,5) |
| WARNE | Cricket's greatest ever leg-spin bowler (5,5) |
| LANCE | West Indies spin bowler who took 309 Test wickets from 195876 (5,5) |
| GIBBS | West Indies spin bowler who took 309 Test wickets from 1958-76 (5,5) |
| AHMED | Mushtaq ....., former Sussex and Pakistan leg spin bowler (5) |
| SWANN | Graeme --, England, Northants and Notts spin bowler (5) |
| ADAMS | South Africa's "frog in a blender" spin bowler (5) |
| LEACH | Jack ___, England spin bowler (5) |
| STASH | Spin bowlers possibly with a pinch of soil to pocket, hide (5) |
| STACK | Pile of spin? (5) |
| ROTOR | Head of Ofcom intervening in Russia Today, alternative source of spin |
