| CRONJE | Kepler Wessels' successor as South African cricket captain (6) |
| PLESSIS | South African cricket captain convicted of ball-tampering in 2013 and 2016 (3,2,7) |
| FAFDU | South African cricket captain convicted of ball-tampering in 2013 and 2016 (3,2,7) |
| ESSAYS | Attempts to be heard as South African (6) |
| WEAKASAKITTEN | How feeble are we, also known as South African outfit number? (4,2,1,6) |
| ULULATE | Wail in grief as South African executed, dead (7) |
| PROTEA | South African cricket flower (6) |
| DORSET | English county fictionalised as South Wessex in the works of Thomas Hardy (6) |
| STRESS | Pressure disperses as South replaces West (6) |
| SPRINGBOKS | Before they were known as The Proteas, the South African cricket team shared this nickname with thei |
| ZUCCHINI | Half of South African cricket club welcome trousers in green (8) |
| ALI | Former South African cricket supremo, -- Bacher (3) |
| EB | South African cricket great nicknamed "Bunter", initials (2) |
| AD | South African cricket's "White Lightning", initials (2) |
| WESSELS | Kepler, South Africa's first postapartheid Test cricket captain (7) |
| NAMIBIA | Which country was formerly known as South-West Africa? (7) |
| SHOWSUP | Appears embarrassed, seeing north as south |
| ABSQUATULATING | Deserting sailors as South American enters boat |
| MBEKI | ANC leader who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa's President, Thabo ... |
| DOMEMOUNTAINS | Ranges such as South Dakota's Black Hills |
