| NANTES | City gives knight a new set-back |
| BANNERET | Knight, a new knight, wearing brimless cap |
| PACER | Give Knight money to report on a harness racer (5) |
| HORSE | Equid whose name transferred to a chess knight, a clothes airer, an easel, a foot-rope, a sawbuck, a traveller for a sail's sheet and a vault (5) |
| SPIN | Word that when followed by City gives the title of a former US sitcom set in the New York City mayor's office (4) |
| KARIBA | A knight, a wife, a dam (6) |
| GEELONG | City gives a medal involving fish (7) |
| HANDTEDSIGN | Give a Knight a placard? |
| DEBRIS | Arthurian knight, a little over halfway back, remains |
| ANDTHE | Words which when placed between Sex and City gives the title of a classic HBO series (3,3) |
| SANDIEGO | West Coast city gives girl energy (3,5) |
| RECITAL | City gives up yen in sincere performance (7) |
| GOLDCOAST | City gives first prize to actors with nothing (4,5) |
| ATLANTA | Georgian city gives thanks over street getting end scrubbed by volunteers |
| SURRENDERS | Primarily searches shows at old city, gives up (10) |
| HAARLEM | Netherlands city gives meat without real cooking (7) |
| GAWAIN | Sir _____ and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century romance about an Arthurian knight (6) |
| MAHARISHI | One hot knight, a joint revolutionary spiritual leader (9) |
| NAPOLEONIC | Describing Emperor and Knight, a European's mostly reserved (10) |
| ONLOOKER | Single rule broken by John Knight, a bystander (8) |