| ORALEXAM | Live test match beginning after embarrassment of real unknown getting a duck first (4,4) |
| ANDYWARHOL | Director before struggle with unknown getting a break (4,6) |
| OVAL | Little Valentine got a duck first on the Christchurch ground (4) |
| SUPERNATURAL | Bats turn up as real, unknown to science |
| RUBICUND | Ruddy duck's first past point of no return, we hear (8) |
| PLETHORA | Guilty, perhaps, of smothering Norse god with an embarrassment of riches (8) |
| GRAFFITI | Player of tennis match beginning to inspire artwork |
| PERICULA | Which dangers am I to duck first? quae prima ____ vito? Aen. 3.367 |
| REDFACED | Holding a flush? The embarrassment of it! (3-5) |
| REDSTART | Singer's beginning after looking embarrassed (8) |
| JIMLAKER | Spin bowler who took a record 19 wickets in a 1956 Ashes Test match |
| ROSEBOWL | The ___, Hampshire cricket ground that staged its first Test match in June, 2011 (4,4) |
| JOHNSTON | Brian, commentator on Test Match Special and presenter of Down Your Way (8) |
| ZIMBABWE | National cricket team nicknamed The Chevrons whose first Test match was in 1992 against India (8) |
| BROWNLIE | First All Black sent off in Test match (8) |
| RAINFORD | Former England cricketer and current Test Match Special pundit (5,8-5) |
| THEGABBA | Test match venue to be announced - engaging male talk |
| THEASHES | Cricket Test-match trophy (3,5) |
| LORDSDAY | Rest period, at the test match? |
| NORCROSS | Dan __, BBC Test Match Special commentator (8) |
