| INTHERE | Right over the plate, as a pitch |
| CONTRACT | Shrink the dental plate as a game (8,6) |
| SPORTS | Shrink the dental plate as a game (8,6) |
| BLOCKS | Stands in front of home plate, as a catcher might |
| HORSESHOE | Frame plate as a symbol of good luck (9) |
| LIVERPOOL | Dwell right over the water of a UK city (9) |
| THROTTLE | Right over the top, learner breaking the fuel regulator! |
| RURAL | Out in the country, right over the river (5) |
| CARTON | Tom goes round right over the box(6) |
| PANTHER | Put basin right over the cat (7) |
| GROTTY | Unpleasant gang leader, right over the top, seen with youth leader |
| GARROTTE | Apply throttle, change gear, keeping right over the top (8) |
| VAULTED | Jumped right over the ceiling! (7) |
| ASPS | They crawl right over the tools (4) |
| DOVER | Dove flew right over the white cliffs (5) |
| ROTTEN | It's bad and seems right over the top to most men (6) |
| SLATE | Form of metamorphic rock used in fine plates as a roofing material, or formerly, for writing on with |
| SCUTE | Thickened horny or bony exoskeletal plate, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of a crocodile etc. (5) |
| BACKDOORSLIDER | Curveball that breaks over the plate at the very last second |
| UNHIT | Missed, as a pitch |