| ETAPE | Leg of a cycling race |
| PELOTON | Main body of riders in a cycling race |
| CLEAT | T-shaped fitting on a boat for securing a rope; or, part of the underside of a cycling shoe for use with a clip-in (or clipless) pedal (5) |
| JEROME | Author of the humorous account of a trip up the Thames in Three Men in a Boat and of a cycling tour in Three Men on the Bummel (6) |
| ROADRACE | A record broken at both ends of a cycling competition (4,4) |
| WASTEPAPERBIN | In which Old Bill might stop between stages of a cycling tour? |
| RELAY | A set of fresh horses or hounds to relieve others on a stage or a chase, hence a relief gang; or, a lap or leg of a race between teams of runners (5) |
| ONION | One of a string of alliums traditionally sold by a cycling Breton farmer nicknamed a "Johnny" (5) |
| COCKSPUR | Word for a spike on a leg of a fighting male game fowl; a catch on a casement window; barnyard millet or orchard-grass; or, an American hawthorn armed with long spines (8) |
| CLIMB | Another word for an ascent in a road cycling race, especially when competing for the title of KoM or QoM (5) |
| FLANDERS | Northern half of Belgium which hosts one of the cobbled classics forming the annual road cycling race calendar (8) |
| ROUBAIX | End point of a famous one-day cycling race that starts in Paris (7) |
| TOUROFLOMBARDY | English name for the cycling race that is traditionally the last of the five 'Monuments' of the season (4,2,8) |
| OMNIUM | Track cycling race of several events (6) |
| SOAK | Steep cycling race, a classic (4) |
| VISCERA | 6 seconds cycling race? Plenty of guts (7) |
| GREGLEMOND | "Dharma & ___" (sitcom about a yoga instructor and a cycling legend?) (2 wds.) |
| ATSEA | Lost a cycling saddle, perhaps (2,3) |
| AHOY | A cycling champ with 'hello sailor'? |
| EON | A cycling period (3) |
