| RACEME | Tortoise's challenge to the hare |
| OUTRAN | As the tortoise did to the hare (6) |
| RABBIT | Burrowing mammal closely related to the hare (6) |
| CLIMATE | Melting sea ice means more Pacific walruses are resting on land, further from their feeding grounds so the greatest challenge to the survival of the walrus is ___ change |
| STRETCHER | Patient carrier's challenge to the Queen (9) |
| DARED | Issued challenge to the dead perhaps, right in the centre (5) |
| COMEGETME | Holed-up suspect's challenge to the cops |
| APTEST | H.S. challenge with 1-to-5 scoring |
| IFYOU | Thatcher's challenge to the Conservative Party conference in 1980? (3,4,2,3,4,2) |
| WANTTO | Thatcher's challenge to the Conservative Party conference in 1980? (3,4,2,3,4,2) |
| YOUTURN | Thatcher's challenge to the Conservative Party conference in 1980? (3,4,2,3,4,2) |
| UGLYCUSTOMER | Dangerous enemy is a challenge to the beautician(4,8) |
| LACAN | "Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment" author Jacques |
| LSAT | Future atty.'s challenge |
| PSAT | Jr.'s challenge |
| SAT | Sr.'s challenge |
| GRE | College sr.'s challenge |
| 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 |
| FABLE | Aesop's The Tortoise And The Hare or The Frog And The Ox (5) |
| 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) |
