| FOURLEAF | Lucky type in the field - or a very short book? (4,4) |
| FISH | Word originally for any creature living in water as opposed to a "beast of the field" or a "bird of the air", later a more specific aquatic vertebrate, such as a minnow, salmon or trout (4) |
| GUARD | In the field or on the track he's often in the van |
| NUB | Gist, or a very short pencil |
| MANXCAT | Feline having no tail or a very short one (4,3) |
| COURT | Out, say, in the field or an enclosed space (5) |
| AMOS | A very short book |
| HORSESHOE | Lucky type of Arabian on foot (9) |
| FIZZES | Word for something bubbly, effervescent or frothy; anything excellent, according to British slang, but a failure or fiasco in the Australian lexicon; or, a very fast cricket ball (6) |
| BREED | Word, from "cherish, keep warm" and "hatch", for a lineage, pedigree, race, or strain; or, a class, kind or variety, such as the figuratively "dying" type in the form of a relatively rare sort (5) |
| STILETTO | A word for a dagger, hence a spike heel or a very sharp type of awl (8) |
| ANTHEM | Word for a style of alternate chanting/singing originally, later a song of devotion, gladness, joy, loyalty, patriotism or praise; or, a very popular tune or rock ballad (6) |
| PASS | To hurl a football down the field (or what you might ask someone to do with the salt or pepper at dinner) |
| CIRCLE | An arrangement of standing stones, such as that at Avebury; a ring of flattened grain stalks in a crop field; or, a planet's orbit (6) |
| CLOSE | Word meaning near or humid that also refers to a small residential road, a field or a cathedral's precinct (5) |
| ELDORADO | Abundant wealth found in a field or a domain (8) |
| GATE | Simple metal or wooden structure opening into a field or a garden |
| YONKS | Thought to come from "donkey's years" or from certain letters in "years, months, weeks", a word meaning ages, forever or a very long time (5) |
| CHARCOAL | Word for burned blackened wood; a briquette, fusain or stick of said carbonised matter for barbecuing or drawing; or, a very deep anthracitic grey colour representing this (8) |
| SIDEBYSIDE | How two teams come on to the field or meat hangs in the butcher's coolroom (4,2,4) |
