| ENRON | ___ Field, a former name of Minute Maid Park |
| PADDY | _ field, a flooded piece of land used to grow rice (5) |
| CHUM | A chamber-fellow, companion, comrade or crony; anglers' groundbait of chopped fish; a keta salmon; or, a former name of meaty meals prepared by Pedigree for pet pooches (4) |
| ZAIRE | A former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
| RACE | Milk ...., a former name of cycling's Tour of Britain (4) |
| NORTHERN | Bradford ........, a former name of Bradford Bulls rugby league club (8) |
| SIAM | What is a former name of Thailand? (4) |
| TRUCIAL | _ States, a former name of the United Arab Emirates (7) |
| EDO | What is a former name of Tokyo? (3) |
| SMALL | ...- Heath, a former name of Birmingham City FC (5) |
| STALINGRAD | A former name of Volgograd (10) |
| REUSE | Onetime sponsor of what is now Minute Maid Park |
| ELYSIAN | ___ fields : a delightful place (7) |
| STRO | Minute Maid Park baseballer, locally |
| ASTRO | Player at Minute Maid Park |
| ASTROS | Team at Texas' Minute Maid Park |
| THEJUICEBOX | Houston's Minute Maid Park, familiarly |
| STROS | Minute Maid Park squad, for short |
| ACRE | From the Old English meaning "open field", a word for a unit of land area that is etymologically related to the name of the fruit of the oak (4) |
| RIDGE | Strip of arable land between furrows characteristic of a medieval field; a rooftree; or, a hill-range (5) |
