| IDOLATERS | Devotees, cricket match being over, not now on square (9) |
| ODIUM | Dislike cricket match being on pause (5) |
| ASTHMATIC | Wheezy when it's a match being played (9) |
| IMPATIENT | Setter's to show expectation about cup match, being this? (9) |
| HOTHEADED | Like burning match, being impetuous (3,6) |
| DOOLITTLE | Dramatic flower-girl in celebration over not a great deal (9) |
| REDDWARFS | Scarlet towers over not-so-bright stars (3,6) |
| CAPTURING | Apprehending wartime codebreaker for being over the limit (9) |
| FIBONACCI | Mathematician's false statement about a couple of constants being over one |
| REV | Increase speed turning over .... over .... not over (3) |
| STOUTEST | Bowled, perhaps, in second match, being most brave (8) |
| COMEUPTOSCRATCH | Prove fit to score, cup match being rearranged |
| COMPOSTHEAP | Oppose match being played around rotting vegetation (7,4) |
| BATTIEST | Cricketer, one in important match being most eccentric |
| TEST | ... top-level game; match being free of cheating (4) |
| CONTESTANT | Match being held inside cannot upset competitor (10) |
| TIE | Draw Hearts in match being cancelled (3) |
| INTENDED | One anticipating a match being planned? (8) |
| LITHE | He lit the wrong match, being flexible (5) |
| VESTAL | Left after match, being pure (6) |
