When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Try searching this site for instructions on accessing the bulbs. It's been covered a few times over the years. I haven't done it myself but I've been around here long enough and have owned enough Explorers to know that the bulbs burn out frequently. This is also the case of the bulb(s) on the door keypad and the headlight switch bulb. If it was a fuse I would suspect something else would not be working also since I doubt that the cruise control bulbs would be on their own circuit.