| STLEGER | One of the five Classics forming the British flat race season which is the final leg of the English Triple Crown (2,5) |
| FLANDERS | Northern half of Belgium which hosts one of the cobbled classics forming the annual road cycling race calendar (8) |
| CLASSICS | Greek and Latin studies; or, the five events of the flat race season including the Oaks (8) |
| ASCOT | Royal -; event forming part of the British social season which is attended annually by the Queen who arrives each day in a horse-drawn landau (5) |
| CLASSIC | Any of the five principal British flat races for three-year-old horses (the 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, Derby, Oaks, and St Leger) (7) |
| NEOLITHIC | Archaeological period which is the final division of the Stone Age (9) |
| ICHING | An ancient divination text considered one of the "five classics" of Confucianism (1,5) |
| SANDERS | Seb ......., jockey who shared the British flat racing jockey's title in 2007 with Jamie Spencer (7) |
| OAKS | Epsom -; in the British Season, one of the five classic flat races for three-year-old horses along with the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, the Derby and the St Leger Stakes (4) |
| BELMONT | Thoroughbred horse race that forms the final leg of the US Triple Crown (7,6) |
| BELMONTSTAKES | The third and final leg of the US Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (7,6) |
| STAKES | see 19dn, The third and final leg of the US Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing |
| MAWDSLEY | Who ran the final leg for Ireland in the women's 4x400m final at the Paris Olympics? (8) |
| INTHELASTRESORT | On the final leg of a holiday as an expedient? (2,3,4,6) |
| RUNS | Does the final leg of a triathlon |
| RAN | Did the final leg of a triathlon |
| EVENT | Any one of the engagements forming the British social season (5) |
| LEGER | The St ___ is the oldest of English horse racing's five Classics. (5) |
| VENT | Complain about going an entire month between the end of "Drag Race" season 16 and the beginning of "All-Stars" season 9, say |
| EPSOM | Site of the second leg of the English Triple Crown |