| ARTICLEOFFAITH | Strong conviction perhaps - an off break, a hit follows (7,2,5) |
| WEANS | ___ off (breaks a habit slowly) |
| NOBALL | A 'free hit' follows this usually. (2-4) |
| QUASH | Annul, as a conviction, perhaps (5) |
| PAVEMENT | Father having strong conviction he scratched hard surface (8) |
| BELIEF | Contradict strong conviction (6) |
| FIRMBELIEF | Strong conviction |
| PATERNITYLEAVE | Dad's off-break? It must be a new delivery (9,5) |
| DOOSRA | A ball bowled by an off-spinner that moves in the opposite direction from an off-break (6) |
| GOOGLY | In cricket, an off break bowled with a leg break action (6) |
| PASSIVESMOKING | Perhaps an unhealthy intake, as one is among gaspers |
| WHIPPERSNAPPER | Fish given to one with cat, perhaps an impish young one? |
| SICKLEAVE | An off break? (4,5) |
| CATNAP | Go off, break off, heads off, drop off (6) |
| KNAP | Old Norse "button, stud", today's hillock or hill-crest; or, to bite off, break with a snap, nefariously steal, nibble, rap, shape a flint/arrowhead or strike (4) |
| LEFTWING | Communists perhaps, on port wresting off break (4,4) |
| SPINS | What off-break does: cuts back (5) |
| SMASH | Sar-major has off-break? (5) |
| BAKER | Cook delivers off-break (5) |
| SPINNER | Off-break bowler in cricket |
