| ASTHECROWFLIES | I flew across the ground in a straight line (2,3,4,5) |
| TERRA | Sprinter races across the ground (5) |
| PARTRIDGE | Grey -; gathering on the ground in a covey, a farmland game bird that thrived on the Western Front in no-man's-land during the First World War (9) |
| TAILSPIN | The rapid fall of a plane towards the ground in a spiral movement (8) |
| SOWN | In the ground, in a way |
| LAUNCH | Get off the ground, in a way |
| DEPLANED | Got one's feet back on the ground, in a way |
| BAFF | Hit the ground, in a golf stroke |
| YUMP | Leave the ground in a rally car (4) |
| AGROUND | On or into the ground; in a stranded condition or state. (7) |
| KNEE | Body part touched to the ground in a modern form of protest |
| SOLES | All that can touch the ground in a sumo match |
| LEAP | Leave the ground, in a way |
| LANDING | Coming down to the ground in a plane (7) |
| TAXI | Travel slowly along the ground, in a cab, say? |
| LEAPT | Left the ground, in a way |
| SOLO | How Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic |
| EARHART | Amelia who flew across the Atlantic |
| OTTERS | Resting underground in a holt or above ground in a couch/hover, an animal with a waterproof chocolate brown coat, a footprint known as a seal and a tail known as a rudder (6) |
| SASH | "I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the ___" |
