| GRETE | ..... Waitz, first woman to run the marathon in under two and a half hours (5) |
| BOBBI | _ Gibb, US former runner who was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon (5) |
| GIBB | Bobbi who was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon |
| ELIUDKIPCHOGE | First man to run the marathon distance in less than two hours |
| GMT | 5 and a half hours behind IST |
| MARATHON | Race run by Kipchoge in under two hours |
| ROADRUNNER | Bird able to run the marathon? (10) |
| ABEBE | Ethiopian Olympian who famously ran the marathon barefoot, ... Bikila |
| 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 |
| TROTT | Warm up the woman to run on time for former EastEnder played by Cheryl Fergison (7,5) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| DENIM | Rugged cotton twill textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads |
| ATTON | Like a winner of a mountain marathon, in two senses |
| HAWKE | "Boyhood" actor Ethan ___, who ran the New York City Marathon in 4:25:30 in 2015 |
| PAULTERGAT | The first Kenyan man to set the world record in the marathon, in 2003 |
| ULTRA | Kevin Sinfield ran seven - - - marathons in seven days in aid of MND causes (5) |
