| UMPIRE | Cricket or tennis referee (6) |
| ITSIN | Tennis referee's call |
| LONG | Tennis referee's cry |
| COURTORDER | Tennis referee's directive becomes legal ruling (5,5) |
| WHITES | Cricket or tennis garb (6) |
| LAW | Body of rules collectively forming a jurisprudence; or, a principle or code of conduct in art, etiquette, honour, morality or a sport such as cricket or tennis (3) |
| UMPIRING | Officiating at a cricket or tennis match |
| SCOREBOARD | Cricket or tennis match display |
| SPORT | Cricket or tennis, eg |
| WICKET | Word for a small door in or near a larger one originally, later any gate; a loophole or grill; a box-office window; an arrangement of stumps and bails in cricket; or, a batter's innings (6) |
| MILLER | A cricket or golf star, or an athlete about 50 (6) |
| FRENCH | Sort of bread, cricket or window (6) |
| ELEVEN | Cricket or football team (6) |
| SINGLE | A hit for one run in cricket; or, a one-way ticket (6) |
| SPELLS | Magic formulae; consecutive overs with the same bowler in cricket; or, short periods of cold/dry weather (6) |
| BATTER | A striker in cricket; or, a damaged piece of type in a forme (6) |
| STANCE | A deliberately adopted posture in e.g. cricket or golf (6) |
| INSECT | Cricket or cockroach |
| LEATHER | Calfskin, kid, morocco, napa or other tanned hide to which weathered skin or the coriaceous underside of a dog's earflap is likened; a strap for a stirrup iron; a ball for cricket or footie; or, a clo |
| CREEPER | A bird that runs or spirals up and down tree trunks; a daisy-cutter in cricket; or, a vine such as the clematis, periwinkle or woodbine |
