| MAIDENS | Bowler aims for these, and more than one miss (7) |
| WICKET | What a bowler aims for (6) |
| MOMOTA | World Championships, Asian Championships, All England Open; this Japanese has won all of these, and more, in 2019. (6) |
| IMPOSTS | Taxes one with millions and more than one job (7) |
| NINEPIN | Bowler aims to hit one over square leg (7) |
| ASININE | When less than two and more than eight are stupid (7) |
| NOISOME | Unwholesome number one and more than a couple (7) |
| AVOCADO | 26 and more than 8 dozen eggs returned at a party (7) |
| ORANGES | These and lemons, St Clement's fruit (7) |
| TIPTOES | One stretches up on these, and ties top loosely |
| ECLAIRS | Too many of these and you're left with caries! (7) |
| LADDERS | Runs go up with these, and down with 9 in game (7) |
| AALIYAH | Singer of "Try Again" and "More Than a Woman" |
| BUBBLES | Super soapy rhyme time: If you've ever blown these and then watched them float by, you know can't catch one, no matter how hard you try. What are they? |
| ASPIRES | Aims for high things and a tall, pointed structure's all he gets (7) |
| NETBALL | In this, one aims for a high goal (7) |
| TARGETS | Aims for the hand and hits it (7) |
| ALCHEMY | In it one aims for gold (7) |
| STAMINA | Working out, Nat aims for staying power (7) |
| MATADOR | He certainly aims for the bull (7) |
