| WHIPPETS | Fast runners switch and step back (8) |
| ICECAP | I start to complain and step back: it's very cold |
| ROTATION | ___ gov't: One in which PMs switch and take turns (8) |
| LEOPARDS | Plods are unexpectedly fast runners (8) |
| CHEATERS | Reporting fast runners who flout the rules (8) |
| CHEETAHS | Crooks, it's said, are fast runners (8) |
| HARASSES | Pesters fast runners going around a ship (8) |
| ABDICATE | Decline to welcome returning hero and step down (8) |
| MOORLAND | Fasten up the boat and step ashore for the open country (8) |
| GETREADY | Prepare, say, for turn and step by yard (3,5) |
| PROTESTS | Expostulates, "Nonsense!" and steps waveringly outside (8) |
| DOUBLESTEAL | Baserunning threat with fast runners on first and second and a weak-throwing catcher |
| HORNRIMMED | Dimmer switch and alarm concealed in tortoise-shell frame (4-6) |
| COMEONSTREAM | Advance master switch and start regular production (4,2,6) |
| ROTUNDA | Switch and tour a circular building (7) |
| NPR | Producer of the "Code Switch" and "Planet Money" podcasts |
| TURNON | Flick the switch and attack (4,2) |
| PRESSEDON | Flicked a switch and kept going (7,2) |
| OLLIE | Skateboarding trick with Fakie, Switch, and Half-Cab variants |
| BREAKER | Device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded. (7) |
