| JOCKEYS | Professional riders depicted in Jilly Cooper's latest novel, Mount (7) |
| 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) |
| JOCKEY | Type of horse racer or steeplechaser depicted in the novels by Dick Francis or in Jilly Cooper's Mount! or Jump! (6) |
| RUPERT | Forename of the aristocratic horseman, Campbell-Black, in Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles (6) |
| OCTAVIA | One of Jilly Cooper's short novels in her series that includes Emily, Bella, Harriet, Imogen and Prudence (7) |
| SURVIVE | How to ___ Christmas; Jilly Cooper's festive "self-help" guide (7) |
| PANDORA | 2002 novel by Jilly Cooper (7) |
| PROVISO | Six studio outsiders follow professional rider (7) |
| MOUNT | Latest novel by Jilly Cooper (5) |
| GOOLDEN | Wine critic and former Food & Drink presenter, Jilly ------- (7) |
| PRAED | Stage name of actor Michael David Prince, who played Robin of Loxley in Robin of Sherwood and Jake Lovell in the 1993 television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Riders (5) |
| BONKBUSTER | Since the 1980s, a term for a novel like Jilly Cooper's Riders |
| JUMP | Obstacle such as a cavaletti or oxer; or, Jilly Cooper's novel about horse racing (4) |
| RIDERS | The first of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles (6) |
| POLO | Team sport played on horseback, depicted in a novel by Jilly Cooper with characters including Ricky France Lynch and Perdita MacLeod (4) |
| RIVALS | Novel by Jilly Cooper adapted for a TV series in 2024 (6) |
| FOURTHHAND | John Irving's latest novel (with "The") |
| NEWS | The latest novel finally appears (4) |
| BARRY | The Temporary Gentleman is the latest novel by which Irish writer? (5) |
| NEWSCASTER | Reader of the latest novel - sort oddly about class |
