| RUNOFBADLUCK | What befalls Jonah in the marathon - a tightening of calf muscles, cramping up and hitting the wall (3,2,3,4) |
| EXPLODING | Shooting up and hitting the wall (9) |
| RELEGATION | Say in course of story-telling what befalls poor team? (10) |
| WHALE | Animal that swallowed Jonah in the Bible |
| ZATOPEK | Nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive", the runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Olympics, the third in a last-minute marathon, a distance he had never attempted before (7) |
| CUEING | Setting up and hitting a billiard ball |
| SPASM | Sudden, uncontrollable tightening of a muscle |
| GRETE | Waitz who won the New York City Marathon a record nine times |
| JUBILEECLIP | For watertight tightening of anniversary film piece? (7,4) |
| DOWNHILL | Sad... Jonah in Hollywood is on the decline (8) |
| LEVIATHAN | Travelling through time back to Jonah in poor whale (9) |
| CASE | From the French for "fall", an instance or happening that "befalls"; a chest, trunk or valise; the husk of a seed or cover of a wristwatch; a legal proceeding; or, an eccentric (4) |
| ACHILLES | Greek hero of the Trojan War and the tendon connecting the calf muscle to the heel |
| CALCANEUS | Largest bone of the foot, to which the calf muscles are attached by the Achilles tendon (9) |
| RUNNINGBAREFOOT | At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won gold in the marathon in this unusual way |
| PAULTERGAT | The first Kenyan man to set the world record in the marathon, in 2003 |
| THREEBANANOSECONDS | Time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement? |
| SPLAT | Sound of a tomato hitting the wall |
| RUTH | Kenyan runner who set a new world record in the marathon in 2024, _ Chepng'etich (4) |
| ETON | Near Windsor's grand walls, learning befalls at this academic cradle of kings, poets, prime ministers, and meringue, strawberry and cream concoctions, often scoffed in mess halls (4) |
