| DOGRACE | Event with a hare |
| TORTOISE | Aesop's winner of a race with a hare (8) |
| AESOP | One with a hare-racing tale? |
| BUN | Dialect for a dry stalk; a chignon or cockernony; a bread roll; a little cake with currants or cream; a pet name for rabbit or a squirrel; or, a hare's scut (3) |
| SMEUSE | A dialect word, combining the Old French for "secret hiding place" and "smoot", meaning a small hole, for a gap in a fence or hedge for the passing of a rabbit or a hare (6) |
| SCRAPS | A graze; a scuffle; a backward slide of a foot accompanying a bow; a hare's form; or, cheap butter (6) |
| SCUD | Word, from the name of a leporid's short tail, reflecting the sense "run like a rabbit, race like a hare", for a driving cloud, gust of wind, sudden shower, missile, slap or swift-footed sprinter; or, |
| FORM | A hare's lair; a long backless wooden bench; or, a sheet printed with spaces for answers (4) |
| DISC | American leaves a field event with a record |
| PROM | School event with a king and a queen |
| TRIAL | Event with a gavel and a gown |
| FASTER | Like a hare vis-a-vis a tortoise, usually |
| BINGONIGHT | Event with a room full of people making a row |
| WHAMMY | Pop duo with surprised Expression in event with a powerful and unpleasant effect (6) |
| TRIPLEJUMP | Athletics event with a hop and a step (6,4) |
| REGATTA | What is a sporting event with a series of yacht races? (7) |
| PGA | ___ Championship (sports event with a 2024 purse of eighteen and a half million dollars) |
| HAMMERTHROW | Track-and-field event with a ball on a steel wire |
| LONGEARED | Equipped with large leg - like a hare? |
| BUCK | A hare for a dollar (4) |