| OBSTACLECOURSE | Bluecoat scores badly in showjumping event, say (8,6) |
| LACROSSE | The French female scores badly in game (8) |
| PUISSANCE | Sue panics, getting tossed in showjumping event (9) |
| ALFRESCO | Male and female score badly in the Open (8) |
| THOUGHTPROCESS | ? however PT scores badly as a way of working out (7,7) |
| FRESCOS | Paints loudly, scores badly |
| PATSMYTHE | First woman, in 1956, to ride in an Olympics showjumping event |
| SMYTHE | Pat ?, first woman, in 1956, to ride in an Olympics showjumping event |
| CLEAR | - round; successfully vaulting all fences on a horse without faults or penalties in a showjumping event (5) |
| SKELTON | Equestrian who won the gold medal in the individual showjumping event at Rio 2016, his seventh Olympic Games (7) |
| HICKSTEAD | West Sussex home of the annual British Jumping Derby showjumping event |
| FAULTS | Fractures in Earth's crust whose movement can cause seismic activity; improper tennis serves; or, penalties in showjumping (6) |
| FENCE | To parry with swords; a palisade or railing; an obstacle in showjumping or steeplechasing; or, a dealer in stolen goods (5) |
| RUSTIC | In showjumping, a fence made of rough branches |
| REFUSAL | In showjumping, a horse declining a fence (7) |
| REFUSES | In showjumping, declines to jump over a fence (7) |
| OXER | Obstacle in showjumping (4) |
| OBSTACLE | A fence in showjumping (8) |
| OXERS | Obstacles in showjumping (5) |
| REFUSALS | Instances when horses stop or exit abruptly prior to obstacles in showjumping or cross-country (8) |
