| EQUINE | Horse - one Queen ordered |
| QUINCE | Queen ordered nice fruit (6) |
| QUIVER | Tremble when one's supporting one queen against another (6) |
| GAYDAR | How one queen recognises another, fairly secret mostly |
| IRKING | Annoying one Queen and her partner? |
| THROWN | Unseated by horse. one the queen sits on reportedly (6) |
| BELIZE | Central American country where one queen welcomes another (among friends?) |
| SPACER | Stable's number one horse one out of this world |
| NAGANA | Horse, one with a disease caused by tsetse flies (6) |
| HARLEY | Rough old invader, say, behind horse one's ridden (6,8) |
| TROJAN | Sort of horse, one typically hard-working |
| HANGIN | Horse, one with spirit, is to persist (4,2) |
| STEEDY | Like a horse, one may surmise, in old stable |
| HEROIN | Horse 1 9's straddling (6) |
| TANDEM | From the Latin for "at length", a carriage drawn by two horses, one after the other; or, a bicycle for two cyclists in a similar configuration (6) |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | French queen ordered one a treat in time |
| REVISER | One making amends for revolution against one's queen (7) |
| EQUAL | Earl shuns one queen to embrace another peer (5) |
| KIRK | Kings imprisoning one Queen in church (4) |
| CATER | Provide food for one queen, perhaps, meeting another |