| ALLWEATHER | Type of running track a centre of excellence with showers, for example (3-7) |
| RUNAWAY | Bolter gives aircraft track a centre (7) |
| MIDDLEDISTANCE | Change of end, it's claimed, around Dutch type of running event (6,8) |
| PLURALISTS | Those in favour of more than one centre of excellence moving upstairs (10) |
| CROSSCOUNTRY | Type of running race (5,7) |
| DRAINAGE | Water soaking away when daughter showers for a long period (8) |
| REINS | Checks showers for auditor (5) |
| ELLISON | Electronic centre of excellence is operational for tech billionaire (7) |
| YOULL | Second person will give reflective eulogy on occasion at centre of excellence |
| SPRAY | Shower, for example, covering pair (5) |
| REGAIN | Get back in the shower for example (6) |
| HANDCART | Barrow craft on types of running water |
| INSIDELANE | In athletics, the shortest route around a circular or oval running track (6,4) |
| RACECOURSE | Running track for horses (10) |
| NEEDSAMAID | Neil Young track, A Man ___ |
| LINE | A railway track; a wrinkle; a very narrow stripe; or, a rope such as a guy for a tent or a sheet for a sail (4) |
| SKULL | Head of anatomy's university centres of excellence under cover for schoolbook (5) |
| SLEEPER | A beam under a railway track; a train carriage with berths/bunks; or, a plain hoop or stud earring (7) |
| LIDDELL | Olympian covering Banks of Dee centres of excellence (7) |
| THEBELLS | Centres of excellence in ancient Egyptian city at midnight tonight (3,5) |
