| CHIRP | Sound of a cricket |
| GLANCE | A brief look, coup d'oeil or peep; a darting of the eye; a flash, gleam or glint of reflected light; or, a slight deflection or glide of a cricket ball (6) |
| LOB | Word for a lump; a lout; a clumsy person; a weighty thing; a heavy fling, hurl, throw or toss; or, a high arcing bowl/shot of a cricket/tennis ball (3) |
| CHIRRUP | Word meaning jolly along; a cluck made with the lips when urging forth one's pony or hack; a cheep of a bird; or, a click of a cricket (7) |
| ROSEBOWL | Original name of a cricket ground in the village of West End in Hampshire; or, a type of vase often with a perforated lid or "frog" (4,4) |
| SNICK | Knot in thread; or, a slight deflection of a cricket ball off the edge of a bat (5) |
| NAIL | Scots word for a framboise; a mollusc's tongue; the stridulator of a cricket; or, a file for blacksmithing (4) |
| OVER | In cricket, a set of six balls bowled by the bowler from one end of a cricket pitch (4) |
| SLOG | A bash, clout or smite; a wallop of a cricket ball; a heavy trudge; or, toil (4) |
| DELIVERY | Manner or style of giving a speech; or, the bowling of a cricket ball (8) |
| PAIR | Term for a score of no runs in both innings of a cricket match (4) |
| SPLICE | The part of a handle of a cricket bat that fits into the blade (6) |
| DECLARATION | An emphatic statement of a voluntary closure of a cricket innings |
| POINTS | --- system, a method for determining the winner of a cricket series involving multiple formats of matches (6) |
| WAGONWHEEL | A bird's eye diagram of a cricket pitch showing shots around a field (5,5) |
| LEG | Side of a cricket field to the left of a right-handed batsman as he faces the bowler (3) |
| CURATOR | Usually custodian of a museum or library, but also in charge of a cricket pitch (7) |
| LINSEED | Type of oil used to treat the willow of a cricket bat |
| INNINGS | One of the divisions of a cricket or other match (7) |
| BAIL | One of two horizontal bars resting on the stumps of a cricket wicket (4) |
