| TWITCH | It's used to subdue a horse with a spasm (6) |
| NATHANSHOTDOGS | What Joey Chestnut consumed sixty-three of-pausing to subdue a protester in a Darth Vader mask-to defend his competitive-eating title (July, 2022) |
| TEARGAS | Blinding vapour used to subdue (4,3) |
| RHEUMATIC | Having painful joints, he tucked into drink with a spasm |
| TRUNCHEON | What may be used to subdue suspect caught on the run? |
| OVERPOWER | Surplus energy used to subdue? (9) |
| DRAMATIC | Stunning 500 sheep with a spasm (8) |
| SORREL | A reddish-brown or chestnut hue; a horse with a coat of this colour; a dock with arrow-shaped sour leaves; or, in the Caribbean, red hibiscus flower tea (6) |
| BRONCO | A horse with a propensity to buck (6) |
| ARABLE | The French on a horse with a kind of crop (6) |
| ACETIC | Acid gives one a spasm (6) |
| TACTIC | Have a spasm about the law but it was part of the plan (6) |
| ATOMIC | Very little order in a spasm |
| DUN | Greyish brown; a horse with a coat of this colour, combined with a black mane and tail; an importunate debt collector; a hill-fort; or, a fishing fly resembling a subimago mayfly (3) |
| COCKTAIL | Old word for a horse with a docked cauda or for a racehorse with mixed lineage; now a mixed drink; a fruit medley; or, any melange (8) |
| JENNER | She rode in to Paris Fashion week on a horse with Gigi Hadid (7,6) |
| NOBBLE | Disable a horse with drugs (6) |
| STAYER | In horse racing, a horse with stamina |
| ABHORS | The sailor gets on a horse with no tail and loathes it (6) |
| MOUNTS | Gets on a horse with scope connectors (6) |
