| MAMMAL | The hare, but not the tortoise |
| AESOP | 'The Phrygian has spoken better than all,' the King of Lydia is supposed to have remarked of this Greek slave born around 620BC who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Boy Who |
| LOSER | The hare, in "The Tortoise and the Hare" |
| FABLES | "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare" |
| FABLE | Aesop's The Tortoise And The Hare or The Frog And The Ox (5) |
| NAP | Reason the hare lost to the tortoise in the fable |
| AMORAL | Machiavellian key to the tale of the tortoise and the hare (6) |
| RACE | What the tortoise and the hare participated in |
| RACED | Competed, as the tortoise and the hare |
| AESOPS | "___ Fables" (collection with "The Tortoise and the Hare") |
| SLOWER | Like the tortoise, vis-a-vis the hare |
| SLOWLYBUTSURELY | How the tortoise beat the hare |
| MORAL | Finish line in "The Tortoise and the Hare"? |
| OUTRAN | As the tortoise did to the hare (6) |
| FAST | The hare's speed, compared to the tortoise |
| AESOPSFABLES | Collection of tales which includes 'The Tortoise and the Hare' (6,6) |
| LEPUS | Latin designation of the hare from which the constellation bordered by Orion the Hunter, Columba the Dove and Eridanus the River derived its name (5) |
| AVATARS | From the Sanskrit meaning "descent", 10 incarnations of Vishnu including Kalki the warrior, Kurma the tortoise and Matsya the fish (7) |
| LEVERET | The young of the hare (7) |
| TORTOISE | Aesop fable, The Hare %26 The ... |
