| STEAKHOUSE | Use The Oaks, flourishing restaurant (10) |
| SOUTHKOREA | 'The Oaks' and our racing nation |
| OUIJABOARD | 2004 winner of The Oaks ridden by Kieren Fallon |
| LIGHTSHIFT | Horse that won the Oaks at Epsom in 2007 (5,5) |
| BURGOYNE | John --, British general in the American Revolutionary War, and author of the play 'The Maid of the Oaks' (8) |
| COROT | French painter of Italian landscapes including The Bridge at Narni, Peasants Under the Trees at Dawn, The Oak in the Valley and Evening on the Lake (5) |
| CLASSICS | Greek and Latin studies; or, the five events of the flat race season including the Oaks (8) |
| BEECH | Tree in the family that includes the oaks and the chestnuts (5) |
| RAMRUMA | 1999 winner of The Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks (7) |
| EPSOM | Home of the Derby and the Oaks |
| CLASSIC | The Derby or The Oaks, for example (7) |
| ACORNS | Nuts for the origins of The Oaks (6) |
| ACRE | From the Old English meaning "open field", a word for a unit of land area that is etymologically related to the name of the fruit of the oak (4) |
| ENTERED | Went in for one of the Oaks perhaps in the finish (7) |
| FILIFORM | Like the thread punters at the Oaks study, do we hear? |
| SARISKA | 2009 winner of The Oaks and Irish Oaks ridden by Jamie Spencer (7) |
| ACORNCUP | Seating for the Oaks in preparation? (5-3) |
| REAMS | Of Verse, winner of the Oaks in 1997 (5) |
| JETSKI | Lady, winner of the Oaks in 1991 (3,3) |
| FAIR | Salinia, winner of the Oaks in 1978 (4) |
