| CUTTOTHECHASE | Copper gets shot in the pursuit, having skipped the preliminaries (3,2,3,5) |
| TECTONIC | Investigator gets shot in the arm relating to moving plates - big-time! (8) |
| QUEEREST | Most unusual pursuit, having dated before being introduced |
| ALDER | Tree that gets shot in army base |
| CURRENTEVENTS | Electrodynamics class: B -- "We thankfully skipped the history of the subject and jumped straight in |
| FROMTHEWORDGO | Monopoly started here with no preliminaries (4,3,4,2) |
| INTRODUCTIONS | Preliminaries |
| LIGHTWEEVENTS | SOME BOXING PRELIMINARIES |
| IRAN | Pakistan's neighbour turned up in the preliminaries (4) |
| MILE | It's a race put back in the preliminaries (4) |
| MILER | Runner's up in the preliminaries (5) |
| RUNUP | Accumulate in the preliminaries (3-2) |
| THEWEIGHIN | It admits one to report the preliminaries for boxing match |
| HEDONIST | Sondheim busted in the pursuit of pleasure (8) |
| GAINSAID | Denied relief in the pursuit of profits (8) |
| INTERN | Job for Will Smith's character in "The Pursuit of Happyness" |
| ANDREW | ___ Scott, star of TV series Ripley, who also appeared in The Pursuit of Love (6) |
| JADEN | _ Smith, starred in The Pursuit of Happyness with his dad, Will (5) |
| SMITH | US actor who starred in The Pursuit Of Happyness and Hitch, Will _ (5) |
| BUILDUP | Praise the preliminaries (5,2) |
