| EMULATE | Follow fast runner, then slow (7) |
| PIPEMUSIC | High-pitch sound attracting fast runner -- so it did for Hamelin's rats (4,5) |
| BEATALOOSEEND | Lose, beat, done a runner, then have nothing special to do (2,2,1,5,3) |
| ISOLATE | The unit so slow may well be cut off |
| HARVEST | Result of fast runner reaching street about five (7) |
| CHEETAH | Fast runner doesn't sound honest (7) |
| HARRIER | Horse-trainer, ignoring notes, re-evaluated fast runner (7) |
| LENTO | Fast time over, then slow (5) |
| SAHARAN | A fast runner stopping prematurely, stuck in endless sand in the desert (7) |
| ATLANTA | Legendary fast runner dropping one of four articles in Olympic venue (7) |
| OSTRICH | Fast runner that's wealthiest after mile |
| LEVERET | Fast runner, potentially, always allowed to go round |
| WHIPPET | Fast runner one Sunday going round Oxford course |
| ROUNDELAY | Love to rush about then slow up in dance |
| BRAISE | Brown then slow-cook |
| DECELERATE | Created eel stew, then slow down |
| LENTANEAR | Listened, with answer to follow fast approaching? |
| SLIPSTREAM | Follow fast-moving vehicle as priests lam out (10) |
| FOOD | Word that can follow fast or fish |
| START | It may follow "fast" or "false" |