| QUEENMAB | She "gallops o'er a courtier's nose," in Shakespeare |
| ATOMISER | It sprays mist o'er a potpourri (8) |
| DAMOCLES | In classical legend, a courtier forced by Dionysius to sit under a sword suspended by a single hair (8) |
| OSRIC | A courtier in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (5) |
| TENNISSHOE | One of a pair found on the feet of a courtier? |
| COURIER | Carrier of a letter from a courtier (7) |
| ROSENCRANTZ | One of the courtiers in the Shakespeare play Hamlet (11) |
| ACUTE | A courtier, oddly, is shrewd (5) |
| TIER | It's the rank of a courtier (4) |
| LADYINWAITING | Woman at home serving meals is a courtier |
| SIRE | Whom a courtier may address |
| PONY | When a 3D gallops, this hair on the back of its neck blows in the wind |
| MORNINGGLORY | Slang for a racehorse which runs faster on the dawn gallops than in the actual race; or, any vining ipomoea, named for its trumpet-shaped blooms that open around sunrise (7,5) |
| TURF | Rooted in "tuft of grass", a green sometimes-sodden carpet or gallops grazed or raced upon by horses (4) |
| HAIRNET | Erin gallops in headgear such as this? (7) |
| RACES | In one way, cares for gallops |
| AIRDRIE | An A1 rider gallops round a Lanarkshire town (7) |
| MAP | Clerk in the court of Henry II whose miscellany De Nugis Curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) was translated by medievalist and antiquarian ghoststory writer M. R. James in 1923 (3) |
| HATFIELD | Town in Hertfordshire, site of a Jacobean courtier's house built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, with gardens designed by John Tradescant the Elder (8) |
| RANCOUR | In Iran, courtiers hide resentment (7) |
