| GOING | Departure - condition of a racecourse (5) |
| ONGOING | Working with the condition of a racecourse is continuous (7) |
| STATE | Declare the condition of a 50th bit of the USA (5) |
| RIDER | Additional condition of a contract (5) |
| RAILS | Birds related to coots, moorhens and crakes; or, the inside barrier of a racecourse (5) |
| RUNIN | Home stretch of a racecourse (3-2) |
| INRUT | Condition of a sexually excited deer (2,3) |
| TERMS | Conditions of a contract |
| STRAIGHT | A run of five consecutive cards of any suit in poker; a description of hair without curls or waves; or, the final stretch of a racecourse (8) |
| APGARSCORE | A measure of the physical condition of a newborn infant, named after a U.S. physician (5,5) |
| STRETCH | A demanding task; a continuous period of time; an act of extending one's body/limbs; or, the home straight of a racecourse (7) |
| WIRE | A strand of metal, such as one traditionally stretched across and above the end of a racecourse, hence a final decisive moment (4) |
| HEATDEATH | Condition of a closed thermodynamic system in which temperature is uniform throughout and no energy is available to do work; a postulated final state of the universe (4,5) |
| SORRYSTATE | Poor condition of a remorseful nation (5,5) |
| LAP | A circuit of a racecourse |
| RIGHTHANDED | Turning clockwise (of a racecourse) (5-6) |
| ESTATE | Point to the condition of a piece of property (6) |
| HOPELESSSTATE | Deplorable condition of a country with no future (8,5) |
| NEWTONABBOT | Market town in Devon on the River Teign; location of a racecourse (6,5) |
| ONTHERAILS | Positioned near the inside fence of a racecourse (2,3,5) |
