| MINATORY | Threatening much initially in a Test, but bagging duck |
| TRIVIAL | One may get four or six in a test, but it's unimportant (7) |
| SOMMER | (A) ... just because few net much initially, right? (6) |
| AITCH | A bit much, initially losing increasing numbers of letters that 'Arry's dropped |
| KNOT | Rob Key from Kent bagging duck in tie |
| ROCKETSCIENTIST | One aims for space playing cricket in tests, bagging duck (6,9) |
| TRIVIA | Six in test but out for fifty? Such things don't matter (6) |
| INTRO | Opening in Test, but only opening, getting run out (5) |
| COB | Groom doesn't have much initially for horse |
| TLDR | "You typed too much," initially |
| NONESUCH | There's nothing like it on bone - is much initially cut? (8) |
| MOTTO | Saying much, initially, to German boy (5) |
| RACISM | The prejudice of the gunner from Cambridge is much initially (6) |
| STEAMBOAT | Second eleven cricketer bagging duck - an old 20, perhaps (9) |
| HEMLINE | With opener dismissed, subject bagging duck on the rise, finding bottom edge (7) |
| NOTOUT | Still batting with no suggestion of criticism bagging duck (3,3) |
| TOUGHEN | Jerk bagging duck, with another fowl making brace (7) |
| STEALIN | Enter undetected and transgress, bagging duck (5,2) |
| BITETHEDUST | Pass on test, but hide, freaking out (4,3,4) |
| DISINTEGRATE | I must enter complicated reading test, but go to pieces (12) |
