| SETOFF | Trip ... or start a |
| KICKOFF | Open a discussion or start a game of football? (4,3) |
| ORDEAL | A distressing time? Yes... or start a card game! (6) |
| RUNSRIOT | Creates a havoc or starts a stampede, in a way? (4,4) |
| SET | ___ forth: begin or start a journey? |
| NORTH | ___ forth : begin or start a journey? (5) |
| TAKEUP | Accept an offer or start a new hobby |
| CLOSE | Stop or start a car with no difficulty (5) |
| LOANS | They may be taken out to pay for college or start a business |
| JUNKET | Word whose etymological journey travels from a rush-basket to a dish of cream cheese or sweetened curds to a trip or excursion for a feast or picnic (6) |
| FLUSH | A rapid flight, spring up or start of game birds; a suffusion of crimson colour in the cheeks; a sudden flow of water; a fresh growth of foliage, flowers or fruit; or, a feeling of excitement (5) |
| ITINERARY | From the Latin for "journey, road", a plan or record of a trip or voyage; or, a guidebook for travellers (9) |
| DIVE | A headlong descent into water; a faked knockout in boxing; a feigned trip or fall in football; or, from the sense "dart out of sight", a disreputable resort of drinking (4) |
| SPIN | Short trip or jaunt in a car; or, the intrinsic angular momentum of an electron or an atomic nucleus (4) |
| WHIRL | A brief dance or trip; or, a pirouette (5) |
| SLEEPINGCAR | Accommodation for a long train trip ... or a hint to entering a certain letter 14 times in this puzzle |
| ACCIDENT | Word for what once meant "to fall upon" but now describes a misfortune or mishap, often a literal slip, trip or fall (8) |
| LEG | Section of a trip or a relay race |
| AIRPORT | A trip or trips in a travel facility? (7) |
| SLIP | Word, found in the common name of a paigle, for an accidental, blundering or clumsy trip or fall (4) |