| EMILE | Zola, for example, in English middle-distance race |
| ACCUSER | A heartless critic, one exploiting Zola, for example |
| MIRACLE | Wonder where vehicle overturned in middle distance race? (7) |
| IMBECILE | Stupid middle-distance race perhaps around stream truncated (8) |
| ZEALOUS | Sue Zola for being so devoted (7) |
| EMILES | Hirsch and Zola, for two |
| TENSE | Present, for example, in English class |
| ELEGY | Mournful work, for example, in English greatly depleted (5) |
| ELEGANCE | Beauty, for example, in English pike (8) |
| PATTISON | Ben, English middle-distance runner born in 2001 (8) |
| OVETT | Steve, English middle distance runner who won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1978 (5) |
| CRAM | Steve_; champion English middle-distance runner (4) |
| HOLMES | Kelly _; English middle-distance runner (6) |
| REGATTA | Great struggle with middle-distance races (7) |
| EPITOME | Perfect example in English, very good book |
| AGA | Range cooker stereotypically popular among English middle classes, thus associated with a literary saga genre set amid Middle England (3) |
| AGASAGA | Story concerning the English middle classes (3,4) |
| ACACIA | Avenue name evoking suburbia and English middle-class values (6) |
| AGASAGAS | Novels about the lives of the English middle classes |
| MARATHON | Long distance race over 42 kilometres named for the ancient battlefield from which Pheidippides, in |
