| UPTEMPO | Having a fast beat (2,5) |
| PAPACY | Pontiff initially having a fast in his office (6) |
| METAL | Heavy ---, rock music with a fast beat (5) |
| TECHNO | Form of modern electronic music with a very fast beat (6) |
| SKA | Style of dance music with a strong fast beat, originating in late-1950s Jamaica |
| SLOWS | What fast beat does for breakdown |
| PURSUIT | Word for the act of following or chasing a fast car, game, a hobby, knowledge, love, a track bike, trivia etc; or, that which is striven after (7) |
| CARAVEL | Caught a composer in a fast ship (7) |
| CHEETAH | Fast animal pulls a fast one, we hear (7) |
| WASHOUT | A failure as a fast dye? (7) |
| BREEDER | Type of nuclear reactor - a rabbit is a fast one! (7) |
| OSTRICH | There's a duck over the way, fruity, a fast bird (7) |
| ALLEGRO | A jelly roll swallowed, for example, during a fast passage (7) |
| SPENDER | Big ___ (person who takes a date to a fast-food restaurant, jocularly) |
| CLIPPER | A hairdresser for a fast sailing ship like the Cutty Sark (7) |
| PEABODY | Dance that resembles a fast foxtrot |
| TRICKED | Pulled a fast one on |
| RAMADAN | Hurried to consume nuts before a fast (7) |
| SCHERZO | (Musically) a fast movement, usually in tripleA time (7) |
| ALIMENT | I'm engaged in a fast ___ shunning this? (7) |
