| ETAPE | L'___ du Tour; cyclosportive event enabling amateur cyclists to participate in a stage of the Tour de France (5) |
| BASIL | England batsman rejected by South Africa for the 1968-69 tour, ... D'Oliveira (5) |
| JAILBREAK | Event enabling you to live out of time? (9) |
| PELOTON | Group of racing cyclists to speed ahead, taking in nothing (7) |
| CHAMPSELYSEES | Avenue in Paris, traditional site of the final stage of the Tour de France (6,7) |
| FLORENCE | From which city did the cyclists on the first stage of the Tour de France set off from yesterday? (8) |
| HARROGATE | In which English town did yesterday's opening stage of the Tour de France end? (9) |
| BUNNYHOP | A jump forward from a squat, suggestive of a rabbit; or, a bike trick enabling a cyclist to vault over an obstacle without dismounting (5,3) |
| MAMES | The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was one of two UK hospitals selected to participate in a 2006 programme to screen for ... cancer (5) |
| SEQUENCE | A division of a film roughly equivalent to a scene in a stage play (8) |
| RIM | Abbreviation of a term for a stage of sleep characterised by saccades of one's ocular "lamps" (3) |
| PARIS | Known as La Ville Lumiere (City of Light), one of the world's big four fashion capitals, where the final stage of the annual Tour de France takes place (5) |
| NIGELSHORT | The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final |
| TURBO | - trainer; device that attaches to a bike enabling a cyclist to train indoors (5) |
| GERMANY | Country that failed to reach the knockout stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup after losing 2-0 to South Korea |
| COPTIC | Final stage of the hieroglyphic language of ancient Egypt, written in the Greek alphabet (6) |
| ENTRYFORM | Sheet filled in to participate in a competition (5,4) |
| APRILMAYMARCH | Permission for a "Parks and Rec" character to participate in a parade? |
| IMAGO | A likeness and in English a stage of insect development |
| GAMEPOINT | Chance to win a stage of a tennis match (4,5) |
