| Fabled race runner-up | 21 |
| Fabled procrastinator | 21 |
| Fabled creature who snoozes and loses | 37 |
| Constellation Lepus | 19 |
| Chinese calendar animal | 23 |
| Bugs Bunny is one | 17 |
| Bounding critter | 16 |
| Big Bunny | 9 |
| Arctic animal | 13 |
| Animal born open-eyed | 21 |
| Also-ran of fable | 17 |
| Also-ran of a famous fable | 26 |
| Also-ran in an Aesop fable | 26 |
| Aesopian racer | 14 |
| Aesop's loser | 17 |
| Aesop's laggard | 19 |
| Aesop creature | 14 |
| A leporid | 9 |
| A lagomorph | 11 |
| "The Tortoise and the ___" | 36 |
| ___ Krishna | 11 |
| Word in many Bugs Bunny cartoon titles | 38 |
| Wonderland tea party critter | 28 |
| Tortoise's fabulous rival | 29 |
| Tortoise's fabled opponent | 30 |
| Tortoise's competition | 26 |
| Tortoise opponent | 17 |
| Tortoise foe of fable | 21 |
| Tortoise foe | 12 |
| This may be Belgian | 19 |
| The constellation Lepus | 23 |
| Tea party attendee in "Alice in Wonderland" | 53 |
| Symbol of a giddy brain | 23 |
| Swift rodent | 12 |
| Surprise loser of story | 23 |
| Storied upset runner | 20 |
| Storied cocky racer | 19 |
| Storied also-ran | 16 |
| Split-lipped mammal | 19 |
| Split-lipped leporid | 20 |
| Speedy Arctic dweller | 21 |
| Snowshoe | 8 |
| Smug runner in a fabled race | 28 |
| Smug racer | 10 |
| Runner-up in well-known race | 28 |
| Run fast, to a Brit | 19 |
| Racer vanquished by a tortoise | 30 |
| Racer vanquished by a tor-toise | 31 |
| Race loser | 10 |
| Rabbit's big brother? | 25 |
| Rabbit kin | 10 |
| Pika's cousin | 17 |
| Party host in an 1865 novel | 27 |
| Paper-chase participant | 23 |
| Overconfident racer in a fable | 30 |
| Overconfident morality tale critter | 35 |
| Overconfident critter of fable | 30 |
| One with big ears | 17 |
| One of the leporids | 19 |
| One of the leporidae | 20 |
| Noted sprinter | 14 |
| Noted race loser | 16 |
| Noted napper | 12 |
| Noted loser of a race | 21 |
| Noted loser | 11 |
| Noted fairy tale napper | 23 |
| Newfoundland's _____ Hill | 30 |
| Napper of fable | 15 |
| Napper in a famous fable | 24 |
| Memorable napper | 16 |
| Meadow lagomorph | 16 |
| March creature | 14 |
| March __: Carroll character | 27 |
| March _____ | 11 |
| Mantra word heard in "My Sweet Lord" | 46 |
| Malkin | 6 |
| Mad March animal | 16 |
| Mad as a March ___ | 18 |
| Losing racer | 12 |
| Loser of lore | 13 |
| Loser of a race | 15 |
| Loser in an upset | 17 |
| Loser in a legendary upset | 26 |
| Loser in a fictional upset | 26 |
| Loser in a fabled upset | 23 |
| Loser in a fabled race | 22 |
| Long-eared racer | 16 |
| Long-eared lagomorph | 20 |
| Little chief ___ (the pika) | 27 |
| Little chief ___ (pika) | 23 |
| Literary tea-party attendee | 27 |
| Lion : pride :: ___ : husk | 26 |
| Lepus, the sky animal | 21 |
| Legendary race loser | 20 |
| Legendary losing lagomorph | 26 |
| Legendary loser | 15 |
| Large mammal outrun by a tortoise | 33 |
| Large bunny | 11 |
| Laggard in an Aesop fable | 25 |
| Kind of bell or brain | 21 |