| DOOSRA | Type of off-spin cricket delivery whose invention is credited to Saqlain Mushtaq (6) |
| TURN | Go; spin (cricket) (4) |
| 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) |
| JUNIOR | - - - Bake Off, spin-off show featuring youngsters |
| COOLIE | Good heavens! The invention is Chinese! (6) |
| EDISON | Inventor and businessman whose inventions included the phonograph and motion picture camera (6) |
| SMILEY | Symbol whose invention was, fictionally, inspired by Forrest Gump |
| CATFLAPS | Feline independence portals, hinged escape routes or swing doors, whose invention is apocryphally credited to Sir Isaac Newton (8) |
| RUSSE | Charlotte ___ (dessert whose invention is often attributed to Czar Alexander I's chef) |
| HULAHOOP | Circular toy whose invention is a plot point in The Hudsucker Proxy |
| BRA | Garment whose invention is satirically described in Wallace Reyburn's "Bust-up" |
| 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 |
