| FREEWHEELING | Carefree, though not in cycling gear |
| HELMET | Anonymous man left opera in cycling gear (6) |
| LYCRA | Fabric used in brightly crafted cycling gear (5) |
| LEATHERS | Allow to hold a woman's cycling gear |
| DERAILLEUR | Cycling gear a pain: on reflection, regret brightly-coloured coats |
| EARWIG | Try to catch calendar girls wearing cycling gear (6) |
| GINSBERG | Poet kicks off cycling gear, extremely upset (8) |
| PARAG | Who hit six consecutive sixes, though not in the same over, in a game in IPL 2025? (5) |
| DINGBATS | Calm in recession round northern Britain, though not in Australia! |
| VIRTUALLY | In effect, though not in fact |
| OUTPACE | Beat in race, though not in step (7) |
| PASS | Succeed in love, though not in accepting love (4) |
| DESCEND | Dismount in cycling arena in outskirts of Dortmund |
| OUTOFPLAY | In touch perhaps, though not in the cast (3,2,4) |
| PESO | Currency in eight countries (though not in its country of origin) |
| INNAME | By title, though not in fact, with "only" |
| RIGHTHAND | Off side, though not in France (5,4) |
| SEASIDE | Coastal resort, though not in Kent (7) |
| DRUMMERS | Players having their day, though not in first eleven (8) |
| STRIPCARTOON | Procrastination, though not in a funny set of pictures |
