| DOOSRA | Type of off-spin cricket delivery whose invention is credited to Saqlain Mushtaq (6) |
| TURN | Go; spin (cricket) (4) |
| POWERBALLAD | Slow rock song with an emotional vocal delivery ... whose start can follow each half of 17-, 31-, 44- and 63-Across |
| SNOOKER | Form of billiards whose invention is credited to Sir Neville Chamberlain and name is thought to derive from military slang for a new cadet (7) |
| LANTERN | Case protecting a flame or light bulb; glass chamber at the top of a lighthouse or, linked with "magic" for a device whose invention is credited to Christiaan Huygens (7) |
| RAHANE | Who won the player of the series award in the recently-concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy? (6) |
| EPONYM | Person after whom a discovery, place, brand or invention is named (6) |
| MUMBAI | Which team won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for the 2024-25 season? (6) |
| COOLIE | Good heavens! The invention is Chinese! (6) |
| SMILEY | Symbol whose invention was, fictionally, inspired by Forrest Gump |
| RUSSE | Charlotte ___ (dessert whose invention is often attributed to Czar Alexander I's chef) |
| DAVY | Cornish chemist whose invention of a firedamp safety lamp decreased the number of fatalities of miners and contributed to the progression of the industrialisation of Britain (4) |
| READYTOWEAR | Pierre Cardin was the first to introduce this type of off-the-peg designer collection (5-2-4) |
| CHAIN | The _, Fleetwood Mac song which is a combination of previously rejected work, and is credited to all five band members (5) |
| GIRLPOWER | Slogan whose origin is credited to the US punk band Bikini Kill |
| SHAKESPEARE | Whom the first use of the nine long adjectives is credited to |
| OILS | Consisting of pigment suspended in a linseed-based medium, artists' paints whose invention was formerly credited to Jan van Eyck (4) |
| LAENNEC | French physician whose invention of the stethoscope is said to be inspired by his skill in carving flutes (7) |
| TORRICELLI | Italian physicist whose invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 contributed towards the proof of |
| LUMIERE | French brothers whose invention of the Cinematographe marked the birth of the film industry (7) |
