| BATTINGAVERAGE | Strike rate in the field (7,7) |
| QUICKTIME | Normal marching rate, in the Army |
| THEATRE | Surprising rate in the show (7) |
| LEASTWISE | Most stupid, at any rate, in the US (9) |
| PRIME | Rate in the financial pages |
| TEAM | Players getting half-rate in the morning (4) |
| INTHEMAIN | You"ll find them first-rate in the tavern, by and large (2,3,4) |
| EMPHASISE | Stress European rate in the existing circumstances beginning to ease (9) |
| FED | Reserve bank controls interest rates in the USA? (3) |
| AOL | Internet co. that charged hourly rates in the '90s |
| MATERNITYLEAVE | Partner varied rate in levy for the mother's benefit (9,5) |
| GOALKEEPER | Banks perhaps aim to maintain excellent rates in the first instance (10) |
| CROCODILETEARS | Predator reviewed rates in insincere display (9,5) |
| FRONTBENCH | Where the PM sits is not perhaps second rate in the language of Voltaire (5,5) |
| OVERTIMEPAY | This was set at 50% more than the normal rate in 1938 by the Fair Labor Standards Act: 2 wds. |
| ALBERTA | Put a pound on the exchange rate in Canada |
| ALTER | Change the rate in which pound is held (5) |
| LATERON | Some time after, change rate in half of the capital (5,2) |
| CAKE | Whisker ___ sweet from The Candy Shop War that made hair grow at an unusual rate in sixty seconds |
| EXCH | Kind of rate in a bank: Abbr. |
