| SECONDFIDDLE | Mo Farah: "Initially, I had led off; that's less important" |
| NOMADIC | Wandering casually initially, I had a day going uphill (7) |
| SUBPLOT | Replacement bed that's less important in play (7) |
| FBI | J Edgar Hoover kept the secret files he had amassed during the 48 years he had led this organisation |
| ANDROMACHE | Exciting romance had led Hector to the altar (10) |
| DIDDLE | Detective Inspector had led corrupt swindle |
| LIGHTHEADED | Flight she had led topless and slightly drunk |
| CHARLESDEGAULLE | French President who previously had led Free French forces in exile in London (7,2,6) |
| EDUXERAT | He had led out, eg Allienus and his legions, Cic. Ad Fam. 12.12.1 |
| RAN | "She ___ to the man who had led her so far astray..." -Nat King Cole "Miss Otis Regrets" (1960) |
| RUNNERSUP | Mo Farah, for example, has drink with those he beat (7-2) |
| DISTANCERUNNER | Informally, an athlete like Emil Zatopek or Mo Farah |
| SPORTSMANSHIP | Playing fair and square, Mo Farah for example is fashionably current (13) |
| HALFMARATHONS | Mo Farah hasn't primarily lost races like these (4-9) |
| HALFMARATHON | Somehow halt Mo Farah before end of modern running event (4-8) |
| RUNNER | A long narrow carpet for Mo Farah perhaps (6) |
| RUNNY | The kind of honey Mo Farah and Usain Bolt prefer? (5) |
| BALDING | Clare ___, TV presenter who invented the Mobot pose for runner Mo Farah (7) |
| SOMALIA | African country in which British athlete Mo Farah was born (7) |
| SIRS | Mo Farah and Andy Murray, for two (4) |
