| PEREGRINE | Diving/stooping at speeds of up to 240 mph, a powerful species of falcon which is the fastest bird on Earth (9) |
| HURT | Who played "the Bird" O"Donnell in the film of The Field? (4) |
| ELECTRICEEL | Creature whose most powerful species can generate at least 860 volts |
| SWIFT | Hunting, eating, sleeping, mating and drinking raindrops on the wing, the fastest bird recorded in level flight (5) |
| CHEETAH | Which is the fastest land animal? (7) |
| SPARROWHAWK | Bird of prey similar to a falcon which is a not uncommon winter visitor to Mallorca but seldom seen as it prefers to live in dense woods (11) |
| PLOVER | Bird related to the lapwing whose golden species flying at speeds of up to 60mph was the inspiration for what was originally called The Guinness Book of Records (6) |
| OSTRICH | Running at speeds of up to 45 mph, the world's largest bird, Latin name Struthio camelus (7) |
| DRAGONFLY | Travelling at speeds of up to 35mph and mating in a unique wheel formation, often on the wing, a "devil's darning-needle" such as an azure hawker, blue dasher, emerald, flame skimmer or green darner ( |
| TSUNAMI | A seismic sea wave travelling at speeds of up to 500 mph (7) |
| CRESTA | - Run; toboggan track in St Moritz, descended head-first at speeds of up to 80 mph (6) |
| NEPTUNE | Planet with a storm or "Great Dark Spot" which is comparable in size to Earth and experiences wind speeds of up to 1,500 mph (7) |
| RUN | They can ___ for 5km at speeds of 40km per hour. This is one of the ways they catch their prey, it collapses form exhaustion and then devoured. |
| HARE | Boxing during courtship rituals in March, often depicted moon-gazing in art and reaching speeds of up to 50mph, Britain's fastest mammal (4) |
| MERLIN | Small species of falcon; also the type of Rolls-Royce engine used during World War II in the Hurricane and Spitfire (6) |
| ERNIE | In the UK Christmas No 1 single of 1971, who is "The Fastest Milkman in the West"? (5) |
| ORCAS | Marine mammals with a speed of up to 54 kph |
| CONCORDE | Name of a former jet airliner that was used for commercial travel at supersonic speeds of around 1,350 mph (8) |
| KESTREL | Species of falcon known as a windhover, portrayed in Ken Loach's film based on Barry Hines' book (7) |
| ARTMASTER | A retweet by dog's owner is the fastest on the draw presumably (3,6) |
