| TILT | Thrust with a lance at a jousting contest of the same name (4) |
| DUEL | Contest of the French before the Spanish (4) |
| ARMOR | Metallic suit seen at a jousting event |
| PASS | Word for a col, gap or way between mountains; an event; a fish-ladder; a free ticket; a juggling trick; a permit; a proposition; a sally of wit; or, a thrust with a sword (4) |
| STAB | A jab, prong or thrust with a poniard or figuratively made in the dark when randomly guessing; an attempt; a pain; or, a single staccato note (4) |
| FOIN | Thrust with a sword (archaic) (4) |
| RINK | Scots word for a jousting ground originally, later for a stretch of ice set aside for curling or skating (4) |
| KICK | Kindly start to check out a thrust with the foot |
| EGIS | Part of a jousting outfit |
| EPEE | Weapon you can parry and thrust with |
| IVANHOE | Walter Scott novel with a jousting contest |
| ATILT | Inclined to be seen in a jousting contest? |
| ATTORNEY | A jousting contest said to be brief? |
| PICADOR | Ln bullfighting, a horseman who pricks the bull with a lance to weaken it at the early stages of a fight (7) |
| FAVOUR | Approval or esteem for someone or something; a token of love such as that bestowed upon a jousting knight by a lady; or, an act of kindness (6) |
| HITTING | The art of jousting, riding and thrusting with a lance (7) |
| LUNGE | Thrust with a sword |
| JAB | Thrust with a fist |
| TOURNAMENT | Medieval jousting contest or tilt between knights; or, a round robin or series of competitions in bridge, chess, golf or tennis, for example (10) |
| SPOTKICK | See forceful thrust with foot results in penalty (4,4) |