| UMPIRE | A cricket referee (6) |
| UMPIRES | Cricket referees |
| 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) |
| SLIDER | A cricket ball delivery; a mule-like slipper; or, a miniature burger in a bun (6) |
| ROLLER | Tumbler pigeon performing backward somersaults in flight; a hair curler; a heavy cylinder for preparing a cricket pitch; or, a surcingle (6) |
| NEISSE | Lusatian -; river flowing from the Czech Republic to Poland and Germany (6 53 Number of players forming a football or a cricket team (6) |
| CHERRY | Used to make a chocolate-dipped griotte, a fruit from which a cricket ball's colloquial name derives (6) |
| ATTACK | Offensive move in a game/sport; musician's approach to a piece; or, a cricket team's collective bowlers (6) |
| CREASE | A crumple or fold in cloth/paper; or, a white line on a cricket pitch (6) |
| GROUND | Terra firma; a canvas or panel to which paints are applied; a cricket field or rugby stadium; or, in plural, acreage or parkland surrounding a large house (6) |
| HEARTH | A domestic fireside, upon which a cricket seen to be chirping is traditionally considered to be a symbol of household good luck, as depicted in one of Dickens's Christmas novellas (6) |
| AFIELD | A cricket ground is at a distance (6) |
| ELEVEN | Number of players forming a football or a cricket team (6) |
| SPLICE | The part of a handle of a cricket bat that fits into the blade (6) |
| ACCESS | Find a way into a cricket club, at the end, on board ship (6) |
| ACCEPT | May take on a cricket club, at the end. Up to a point (6) |
| POINTS | --- system, a method for determining the winner of a cricket series involving multiple formats of matches (6) |
| SWERVE | From "leave, stray, turn aside", an abrupt change of direction; a sudden deviation; or, the act of making a cricket ball swing laterally in flight (6) |
| OPENER | Key person in a cricket team (6) |
| CHIRPY | Merry as a cricket (6) |
