| AVENGER | Rang Eve about Gambit, Purdey or Steed (7) |
| CHARGER | Knight's valiant warhorse or steed; a platter for meat or a suppertime feed; or, a battery-powering plug and lead (7) |
| ESSAYED | Tried to bring back Purdey as sexy content (7) |
| PRANCE | Related to "lively spirited horse" and "in full splendour", word meaning bound from the hind legs, high-step or spring, as in the aforesaid pony or steed; or, to caper, cavort, frisk, gambol, skip or |
| REENSLAVE | Learn Eve's about to get folk back into bondage? (2-7) |
| TOSS | Word for a fall from one's pony or steed; a flip of a coin; a turn of pasta or salad; a haughty fling back of one's head; or, a measure of sprats (4) |
| EVOKE | Call up Eve about fine (5) |
| MOUNTING | Act of ascending one's palfrey or steed; or, a painting's backing mat (8) |
| AMOUNT | Quantity or steed? |
| AVENGERS | Purdey and Steed spraying nerve gas (8) |
| LUMLEY | Joanna ?, actress who played Purdey in ITV action series The New Avengers |
| JOANNALUMLEY | English actress who played Purdey in The New Avengers (6,6) |
| GUNMAKER | Purdey is a renowned one (8) |
| LUXURY | A word synonymous with Purdey - far from cheap and cheerful! (6) |
| BERKSHIRE | Royal county, home of Purdey Shooting School (9) |
| THENEWAVENGERS | TV series in which Joanna Lumley played Purdey (3,3,8) |
| HORSEWAYS | Another word for bridlepaths along which riders and their cobs, hacks, hunters, schoolmasters or steeds have right of passage (9) |
| JOANNA | Who played the athletic Purdey in TV's The New Avengers? (6,6) |
| SPY | Purdey in The New Avengers. played by Joanna Lumley, was this kind of British Intelligence agent (3) |
| MOLOTOV | Russian's short gambit accepted - nothing much (7) |
