| GRIDIRON | Ground for American football or riding out (8) |
| GREYWOLF | Good, flowery ground for American mammal (4,4) |
| WHIPLASH | A flexible end of a switch or riding crop; or, a jerk or jolt to the neck that occurs suddenly, like the cracking motion of a scourge (8) |
| UPDATING | Giving a contemporary look, when riding out with someone (8) |
| BREECHES | Word with knee or riding |
| SNAPSHOT | Word for a brief summary, quick glimpse, hasty firing of a gun, hurried photo, instant record, swift boot of a football or other abrupt happening or spur-of-the-moment thing (8) |
| SHINPADS | Guards worn for football or hockey (4,4) |
| SCREAMER | Hard strike in football, or sensational headline in the US (8) |
| STREAKER | Naked runner occasionally seen on a football or cricket pitch |
| HALFTIME | Interval in football or rugby (4-4) |
| HATTRICK | Football or cricket feat |
| TWELFTHM | Home-field advantage in football ... or what the last square of the answer to this clue represents i |
| TOURER | A bike, caravan, open car, phaeton etc, designed for peregrination; or, the journeyer, traveller or wayfarer driving or riding one such vehicle (6) |
| GODIVA | One known for riding out of gear? |
| DOUBLEHEADER | Train for American football games |
| EMO | Genre for American Football |
| RODS | From "clubs", word for straight slender shoots; canes or switches; wands; measuring sticks; perches; fishing-poles; or, riding crops (4) |
| SNOW | Frozen surface for tobogganing or riding a sleigh |
| SENDNATURE | Swimming or riding a bike, for most people |
| DENVERBRONCOS | Study part of speech with vicious scorn about love for American football team (6,7) |