| GRETE | Waitz, first woman to run a marathon in under two and a half hours (5) |
| TRAINS | Prepares to run a marathon, say |
| GMT | 5 and a half hours behind IST |
| MARATHON | Race run by Kipchoge in under two hours |
| DIANELEATHER | English athlete, first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile |
| MARYBARRA | GM CEO who in 2013 became the first woman to run a Big Three automaker |
| LUCILLEBALL | First woman to run a major TV studio |
| SCORSESE | Director whose new film "Killers of the Flower Moon" has a three-and-a-half-hour run time |
| YEAR | Its end comes in under 2 weeks |
| BOBBI | _ Gibb, US former runner who was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon (5) |
| TROTT | Warm up the woman to run on time for former EastEnder played by Cheryl Fergison (7,5) |
| ALONG | A marathon in company with others |
| OUIDA | Pen name of the author of Under Two Flags and A Dog of Flanders (5) |
| HOOHA | Half-hour's reflection before a song and dance (3-2) |
| ATTON | Like a winner of a mountain marathon, in two senses |
| PAULA | --- Radcliffe, winner of the London Marathon in 2002, 2003 and 2005 (5) |
| KUTOL | Ruth ....., winner of both the Dublin and Madrid Marathon in 2003 (5) |
| RACED | Ran a marathon, for example |
| DENIM | Rugged cotton twill textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads |
| HAWKE | "Boyhood" actor Ethan ___, who ran the New York City Marathon in 4:25:30 in 2015 |
