| LIFETHREATENING | The fleeting rain turned severe (4-11) |
| HAIL | Rain turned to ice (4) |
| NORIA | Duck in rain turned into means of raising water |
| ABSENCE | Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my ___ been / From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! / What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! / What old December's bareness everywhere! |
| DEJAVU | French phrase referring to the fleeting "already seen" phenomenon or "been here before" feeling (4,2) |
| IGNITE | Fire back through the fleeting image (6) |
| SIC | Phrase used to remind newly crowned popes of the fleeting nature of life on Earth (3,7,6,5) |
| HATEOFTHEMOMENT | Hostile feeling that's fleeting? |
| FLAVOROFTHEWEEK | Fleeting romantic interest |
| TEACHABLEMOMENT | Fleeting classroom opportunity |
| BUMSRUSH | Abrupt dismissal of genteel writing in a fleeting encounter (4,4) |
| RULES | Harsh and fleeting reigns? (4,3,4,5) |
| HARDANDFAST | Harsh and fleeting reigns? (4,3,4,5) |
| ANDFASTRULES | Rigorous and fleeting reigns? (4,3,4,5) |
| HARD | Rigorous and fleeting reigns? (4,3,4,5) |
| VIVALDI | Composer whose violin concerto Autumn forming part of The Four Seasons depicts the revelry at a harvest festival followed by a dawn hunt pursuing a fleeting beast (7) |
| STINGER | Rugby injury, usually fleeting, affecting the nerve supply of the upper arm (7) |
| HIPPOCRATES | "Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult." He is considered to the "Father of Medicine." Who is it? |
| SHORTAGE | The inadequacy of fleeting time (8) |
| SIDEGLANCE | Son with papers, say, and weapon gets fleeting look (4,6) |
