| INLEAGUE | A short short distance and a long distance combined |
| SEVENDAY | Lasting a week, a short, short time, yet having diamonds forever |
| FLINCHED | Ran around short distance and showed fearful response (8) |
| SECTS | A short, short time takes out factions |
| QUICKIE | A short short (7) |
| SOS | Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short" |
| ZOLA | Olympic middle-distance and long-distance runner who has represented both Great Britain (1984) and South Africa (1992) (4) |
| NILE | Infielder regularly covers a good distance and has a decent flow |
| MINICABS | Short, short dress is new, basic and for hire and ideal for tripping around (8) |
| SCRIMP | Keep short, short science, king-emperor and redcap (6) |
| DACTYLIC | Long-short-short, in poetic meter |
| DACTYL | Long-short-short, in verse |
| RUNNING | General name for footracing over a variety of distances and courses and numbering among the most popular sports in nearly all times and places. (7) |
| WARFARIN | Rat killer fighting at a distance and at home (8) |
| SIT | Dance out distance and have a seat (3) |
| RANGE | "One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close ___": Victor Hugo (5) |
| HOLDOFF | Keep at a distance and wait to be connected on holiday (4,3) |
| LANDSAT | One taking pictures from a distance and interrupting future attorney's exam (7) |
| OUTSWIM | Crawl a longer distance and faster (7) |
| AVOCET | A long-legged wading bird with a usually black and white plumage and a long, slender, upward-curving bill (6) |
