Black ball (5)
I believe the answer is:
eight
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">black ball</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for eight that I've seen before include "Crew of racing shell" , "Cube root of five hundred and twelve" , "may be cut out of ice" , "Mathematical cube" , "power of two" .)