| ERUPTING | Meaning "riding on horseback", description of an overlapping leaf (8) |
| EQUESTRIANISM | The art or practice of riding on horseback (13) |
| CAVALRY | Troops riding on horseback |
| TURNOVER | An old word for a shawl; a small triangular pastry/pie made by folding the crust around a sweet filling of apple or other fruit; reversal of position; transference; an overlapping part; or, the amount |
| OMNIVORE | Description of an animal that eats a variety of animal and plant foods (8) |
| RUTHLESS | Cut-throat's description of an incomplete Bible? (8) |
| DROPLEAF | Description of an item of foliage falling in autumn, say, and a table where the sides lower down! (4-4) |
| NOBLEGAS | Description of an element occupying Group 18 of the periodic table: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon or radon (5,3) |
| CLINCHER | It's all riding on this cold row around Church ringleader (8) |
| STRADDLE | At first, try riding on the saddle with legs wide apart (8) |
| DISLODGE | Remove one riding on board rickety dogsled (8) |
| SLEDGING | Shouting abuse while riding on toboggan (8) |
| NONRIGID | Riding on rocks, kept in shape by pressure only (3-5) |
| WORLDCUP | Promise to cross line riding on colt in sporting event |
| WATERSKI | Kate's injured crossing river in W. Indies, riding on this? (5-3) |
| SLAT | Thin narrow piece of wood, plastic, or metal used in an overlapping series as in a fence or venetian blind |
| SPLINT | Strip, lath or spelk of pounded ash wood used in basketry, or, an overlapping plate forming armour (6) |
| IMBRICATE | Lay tiles e.g. in an overlapping manner (9) |
| CROSSBILL | Finch with an overlapping beak (9) |
| BOYLE | Irish-born scientist whose description of an experiment on a bird in an air pump is portrayed in a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (5) |
