| GALLOP | Fastest pace a of horse (6) |
| STEP | A footprint or a pace; a small space; a ladder rung; a stair tread; a short walk; a dance move; or, gait (4) |
| GALLOPS | Goes at the fastest pace of a horse (7) |
| FOOTSTEP | Pace a distance of twelve inches (8) |
| CAP | Do better than raise the pace a bit? (3) |
| DAMP | Water checker beginning to pace, a little wet (4) |
| LAG | Fail to keep pace: a" behind |
| GALOP | Dance at fastest pace, we hear (5) |
| STEPBROTHER | Pace a monk takes to one related by further marriage (4-7) |
| TOTEMPOLE | To allow briefly to gather pace - a brave monument (5,4) |
| WALLOP | Word for a horse's fastest run originally, later a heavy blow; a boxer's ability to deliver a powerful punch; financial, influential or physical clout; a thick piece of fat; or, beer (6) |
| RINGER | Australian word for the fastest sheepshearer in an shed, as opposed to a "snagger"; a game of marbles; a campanologist; or, a horseshoe/quoit thrown so as to encircle a peg (6) |
| SWIFTS | Fastest of the bird species, of the family Apodidae, capable of more than 160kmh (6) |
| STRIDE | The pace of the fastest riders (6) |
| BAMBOO | Constituting the diet of the giant panda, a tall woody grass and the world's fastest-growing land plant (6) |
| DASHER | One of Santa's fastest reindeer (6) |
| ESCORT | E-Type going around the fastest possible speed for a car (6) |
| POTTER | Beth British runner who recently ran the second-fastest road 5km ever by a female athlete (6) |
| CHURCH | One of the fastest corners at Takazumi Katayama where you go to worship? (6) |
| SPEEDY | First name of the cartoon character who is The Fastest Mouse In All Mexico (6) |
