| ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | How a race might have started, with all speed (2,3,4,2,1,3) |
| READY | The starter at a race might call out, ... set, go (5) |
| ENTRECHAT | Vault's core ending as it should have started - with overhead covering (9) |
| DECOLLETE | Duettist might have started evening without a penny (9) |
| SQUAREONE | Where an old-fashioned individual might have started |
| SUSPECTED | Mistrusted how the cuts were attended to with all speed (9) |
| POSTHASTE | Posse that gets together with all speed |
| DISPERSE | Scatter them with all speed, Sir (8) |
| ASAP | With all speed, dash in by early April |
| AMAIN | With all speed, violently (5) |
| BYANOSE | How a close-run race might be won (2,1,4) |
| PUFFEDOUT | Filled with pride, as winner at end of long race might be |
| REACHTO | Tho' race might go so far (5,2) |
| CODE | Swimmer last in race, might one be broken? |
| SHORTHEAD | Horse race might be won by this little man on flier perhaps |
| ABS | Exertion of sailing races might build up these! (3) |
| SOPRANOS | Nora and Penny have started singing with this leading orchestra that travels around in West Somerset -- they have very high singing voices (8) |
| GOOSEBERRYBUSH | Might an unwanted president's life be said to have started here? (10,4) |
| SIDEHUSTLE | Extra-income activity that may have started as a passion project |
| UNDERSTATEMENT | To have started out with new tune for me is less important (14) |
