| EXTRATIME | Australia's NRL controversially opted for this with the Golden Points rule which eliminates tied mat |
| DEPOT | Eccentric opted for this storehouse (5) |
| SEWERS | Small containers which eliminate waste (6) |
| PARKINSONSLAW | The name of the rule which states that 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its comple |
| AIR | The daring young man on the flying trapeze flies through this with the greatest of ease |
| RAISETHESUBJECT | According to Bagehot the Queen is allowed to do this with the PM when helping him up off the floor (5,3,7) |
| CHOSEN | Had opted for the little child with the funny nose (6) |
| THROWIN | Do this with the towel perhaps that's taken off the field |
| FOLD | Do this with the clothes from the dryer |
| THREESISTERS | Nuns behind Trinity produced this with the Cusack girls (5,7) |
| SACKCLOTH | One's sorry to be in this, with the Ashes coming up? |
| CATCHIT | Get in trouble if silly man doesn't do this with the ball? |
| MADOFF | Financier Bernie did this with the loot, we're told (6) |
| ROUNDUP | Do this with the usual suspects that would cause damage to plant (7) |
| INURN | Run out after batting? I might do this with the Ashes (5) |
| CLAWHAMMER | Conservative club embraces rule which facilitates retraction of what one earlier pounded home! (4-6) |
| MOB | They have their own rule, which is to be unruly! (3) |
| MURPHYSLAW | Rule which says anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (7,3) |
| SODSLAW | Rule which states 'anything that can go wrong, will go wrong' (4,3) |
| PELICAN | Seabird said to draw blood from its own breast with its pouched beak to feed its young, thus a symbol of self-sacrifice and motherly love to the nation co-opted for Elizabeth I (7) |
