| CYCLIST | City's claim sadly lacking ambition for a rider (7) |
| IMMATURE | Young mother's introductory claim sadly true |
| ASPIRE | Have an ambition for a high place in the church? |
| STIRRUP | A support for a rider's foot, comprising a metal hoop suspended on a strap from a saddle (7) |
| ASPIRED | Had ambitions for a high place in the church in the Christian era (7) |
| GAMBADO | Either of a pair of protective leather holders attached to a horse's saddle for a rider's feet (7) |
| SADDLED | Equipped for a rider, of a horse (7) |
| AIMLESS | Target fewer darts if lacking ambition (7) |
| LEGENDS | Cricket side with ambitions for fantastic players (7) |
| PROVISO | Professional endorsement, over for a rider |
| SPOUSES | Piousness sadly lacking in partners (7) |
| FULCRUM | Fellow, muscular, sadly lacking as prop (7) |
| DRESDEN | City's defenders sadly lacking iron (7) |
| REFUSAL | Spurning failures sadly lacking independence (7) |
| ALSORAN | Poor athlete as normal sadly lacking bit of motivation (4-3) |
| SADDLE | Word, similar to that of a pew-like high-backed bench, for a rider or cyclist's seat on a horse or a bike (6) |
| BUILDINGSOCIETY | Politician's ambition for lender? (8,7) |
| SIDESADDLE | Style of equestrian seat traditionally designed for a rider wearing a habit (10) |
| COMEDOWN | Humiliation it is for a rider to take a toss? (8) |
| BICYCLEPUMP | Writer has clump, yep, curiously as accessory for a rider? (7,4) |
