| DODGED | Eluded a pursuer or a blow by a quick movement (6) |
| DODGE | Avoid by a quick movement (5) |
| FOLLOWER | A chaser, disciple, pursuer or a servant-girl's sweetheart of yesteryear, but now a digital devotee, Facebook friend, Insta idoliser, social media supporter or X peer (8) |
| JAB | Straight blow by a boxer (3) |
| GROGGY | Unsteady, often from weakness, intoxication, sleep or a blow (6) |
| TWITCH | Quick movement at that end by a broomstick rider (6) |
| ESCAPE | Based on the Latin for "out of one's cloak", word, alluding to the idea of leaving a pursuer clutching just one's coat, for an act of breaking free (6) |
| BEAT | A hawk's dead quarry; a hurl or a blow; a downpour of rain/hail; a storm of rage; a rapid pace; or, an animal's skin or hide intact with its fur or wool (4) |
| PRESTO | Quick movement or step, perhaps (6) |
| THEGAP | What a pursuer seeks to narrow |
| ELUDES | Fools a pursuer |
| ACERBO | Bitter, like the blow by which Aeneas was stunned, Aen. 5.700 |
| SWATHE | Wide strip of bandage finally applied to heavy blow by hospital |
| CELERY | Vegetable ___ quick movement sees it handed out (6) |
| NIMBLE | Quick movement of 1000 bass in river (6) |
| BOX | A topiary shrub; a receptacle traditionally made of its wood; a loge; a country lodge; a pigeonhole; a square pew; or, a blow to a pugilist's ear (3) |
| LICK | A light coat of paint; a short stock phrase in jazz, pop or rock music; or, a quick movement of a flame (4) |
| EVADED | Dodged, eluded (6) |
| WIGGLE | Move from side to side or up and down in quick movements |
| WHIP | From Old German and Dutch for "swing, leap, dance", a lash, slender twig or switch; a quick movement; or, a parliamentary disciplinarian (4) |
