| OCTAVIA | Jilly Cooper novel, or a Skoda car model (7) |
| JUMP | Descent by a parachutist; a Jilly Cooper novel; or, a sudden rise (4) |
| SUPERB | Skoda car model (6) |
| MOUNT | Jilly Cooper novel; or, a stamp hinge (5) |
| POLO | Jilly Cooper novel, or a game (4) |
| ESTELLES | Skoda cars from the 1970s and 1980s (8) |
| ESTELLE | A Skoda model from the 1970s and 1980s (7) |
| RIVALS | Raunchy Disney+ adaptation of a Jilly Cooper novel, filming a sequel! (6) |
| PANDORA | 2002 novel by Jilly Cooper(7) |
| JOCKEYS | Professional riders depicted in Jilly Cooper's latest novel, Mount (7) |
| PRAIRIE | James Fenimore Cooper novel, with "The" |
| SURVIVE | How to ___ Christmas; Jilly Cooper's festive "self-help" guide (7) |
| RIDERS | Jilly Cooper novel adapted for TV (6) |
| PROLOGUE | Meaning "before word", a prefatory speech or section as an introduction to a play, poem or novel; or, a time trial before a stage race in road cycling (8) |
| TACKLE | Word for apparatus, fishing gear, rigging etc from which a term for an equestrian kit derives; a pulley; a block, deflection, play or take of a ball in sport; or, Jilly Cooper's latest title (6) |
| VELVET | Flower painter Jan Brueghel the Elder's nickname; a character in an Enid Bagnold novel; or, a close-cut pile textile traditionally sold by a mercer (6) |
| TITLE | A novel or a movie's name |
| NEMO | Underwater character in a Jules Verne novel or a Pixar movie |
| SCORE | Music composed for a film or play; sum of 20; or, a novel by Jilly Cooper (5) |
| FABIA | This 1999 A Skoda release succeeded the Felicia (5) |
