Quiz help please?

[Liselle]

Hello everyone

I'm doing a charity quiz and I'm stuck on a few questions in one of the rounds. They give you a list of cryptic clues and the answers are all sports of some kind, so as an example:

 

"Wicker sphere" is Basketball, because a sphere is another word for a ball, and baskets are made of wicker. Basket + ball = Basketball.

 

"Small Mr Cowell hangs on" is Cycling, because Mr Cowell is Simon Cowell; shorten Simon and you get Si. To 'hang on' to something is to cling, so Si + cling = Cycling.

 

Get it? Okay, now these are the ones I'm stuck on; if anyone could offer any help or ideas I'd be very grateful...

 

1.) Alien by narrow inlet.

2.) Run after the tower.

3.) Sounds like a root vegetable.

4.) Opener can't stop talking.

5.) The French behind journey leap.

6.) Visiting Liz's.

7.) Hiss before the girls.

8.) That woman's Heather.

9.) Line up the officer.

10.) Bad witches frozen with 45 (I think this is referring to clue 45 in the actual quiz, which is the 'hiss before the girls' clue. So if I can solve 'hiss before the girls', that should give me the answer to 'bad witches frozen with 45').

 

Thank you in advance!

 

 

[Liselle]

Numbers 2, 5 and 8 have been solved:

2.) Run after the tower: Steeplechase

Run = Chase. Another word for tower = Steeple
 

5.) The French behind journey leap: Triple Jump

Journey = Trip; Leap = Jump. Put 'the French' (le) behind 'journey' (trip) and you get 'triple'-- Triple Jump.

 

8.) That woman's Heather: Hurling

That woman = Her. Another word for Heather = Ling. Her + Ling = Hurling
 

[Let's_have_dinner]

Hi, I don't know if it's too late or if you've solved these, but I think number 7 is Swimming 

[Let's_have_dinner]

Could 10 be synchronised swimming? Sin is bad, frozen is ice... not sure about the middle bit?

[Carol the Dabbler]

A witch is a crone.

 

[Let's_have_dinner]

Ah of course!