| SAILING | In a race, of sorts |
| CENTAUR | One of a race of creatures in Greek mythology with the head, arms and torso of a man and the legs and lower body of a horse (7) |
| HYPERBOREAN | In Greek mythology, one of a race of people who lived beyond the North Wind in a land of perpetual s |
| CYCLOPS | In Greek mythology one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead. (7) |
| REDDEVIL | One of a race of foes of Doctor Who, seen in a 2022 Easter Special set in 19th century China (3,5) |
| ORC | One of a race of goblin-like humanoid monsters in Tolkien's lore; or, a cetaceous mammal such as a grampus or a killer whale (3) |
| TRIFFID | Member of a race of monstrous plants in a novel by John Wyndham (7) |
| YAHOO | One of a race of brutal humans in 1726 Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| KURD | Member of a race of people living chiefly in East Turkey, North Iraq and West Iran (4) |
| AMAZON | In Greek mythology, one of a race of women warriors (6) |
| PERI | (In Persian folklore) one of a race of beautiful supernatural beings (4) |
| CENTAURUS | In Greek myth, the father of a race of hybrid half-human, half-horse creatures (9) |
| NIBELUNG | Member of a race of treasure-hoarding dwarfs in German mythology traditionally ruled by Alberich (8) |
| MAGOG | Gog and ___, in British folklore two giants, the only survivors of a race of giants destroyed by Brutus (5) |
| ROEG | Director Nicolas currently making a horror film about a race of immortals who depend on sex to maint |
| DALEK | One of a race of sci-fi villains created by the evil Davros |
| SYLPH | One of a race of supernatural beings supposed to inhabit the air |
| CENTAURS | In Greek mythology, a race of creatures half-man and half-horse (8) |
| NATIONAL | A race of more than local interest (8) |
| RUN | Manage to make a race of it |
