| Respond to the starting gun | 27 |
| React to a ghost, perhaps | 25 |
| Race on foot | 12 |
| Quick trot | 10 |
| Play's potential | 20 |
| Play's play time | 20 |
| Plate crosser | 13 |
| Period of success on Broadway | 29 |
| Perform a cowardly act | 22 |
| Pat Benatar "You Better ___" | 38 |
| Part of a dog pound | 19 |
| Pantyhose problem | 17 |
| One of Miguel Cabrera's 109 in 2012 | 39 |
| Nylons' spoiler | 19 |
| Nylons mishap | 13 |
| Nylon ruiner | 12 |
| Nylon nuisance | 14 |
| Nylon disaster | 14 |
| Not be brave | 12 |
| Many a football play | 20 |
| Look for a seat | 15 |
| Lead all the diamonds, e.g. | 27 |
| Jog or trot | 11 |
| Homer's outcome | 19 |
| Homecoming? | 11 |
| Homecoming result? | 18 |
| Hit and ___ | 11 |
| Have, as a fever | 16 |
| Go for a seat | 13 |
| Get on the ballot | 17 |
| Get on a slate | 14 |
| Exercise area for boxers | 24 |
| Execute...or, just bleed | 24 |
| Enter the race | 14 |
| Enter a 10K, say | 16 |
| Emulate Updike's Rabbit | 27 |
| Emulate Slaney | 14 |
| Emulate Cram or Ovett | 21 |
| Emulate Bush or Dukakis | 23 |
| Emergency advice | 16 |
| Downhill slope | 14 |
| Do the Boston Marathon | 22 |
| Do like Santorum | 16 |
| Do a marathon, e.g. | 19 |
| Do a marathon | 13 |
| Do a dash | 9 |
| Do a cowardly act | 17 |
| Diamond score | 13 |
| Depart quickly | 14 |
| Cry just before disaster strikes | 32 |
| Compete with Sebastian Coe | 26 |
| Compete in a sprint | 19 |
| Campaign (for) | 14 |
| Bull or home | 12 |
| Bull or end | 11 |
| Bull ____: Manassas | 19 |
| Bleed, as colors | 16 |
| Be on the ballot | 16 |
| Be in a footrace | 16 |
| Be in a 10K | 11 |
| Be a candidate | 14 |
| Barry Bond's homecoming? | 28 |
| Banker's bane | 17 |
| Bank woe | 8 |
| A way to exercise | 17 |
| "Walk, don't ___!" | 32 |
| "The monster is coming this way!" | 43 |
| "Hurry, get out of here!" | 35 |
| "Danger! Danger!" | 27 |
| ___ of the mill | 15 |
| Meet by chance | 14 |
| Meet accidentally | 17 |
| Evasive treatment | 17 |
| Evasive treatment, with ''the'' | 47 |
| Bureaucratic buck-passing | 25 |
| Dion ditty | 10 |
| Dion chart-topper of 1961 | 25 |
| 1961 #1 hit for Dion, and a literal hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 74 |
| Do a marathon in Egypt? | 23 |
| What Egyptian marathoners might do? | 35 |
| Charge towards | 14 |
| Rush toward | 11 |
| Charge toward | 13 |
| Attack, in a way | 16 |
| Move rapidly toward | 19 |
| Quickly approach | 16 |
| Try to sack, say | 16 |
| Move rapidly toward, on foot | 28 |
| Blitz, say | 10 |
| Go by the book | 14 |
| Exercise strict control | 23 |
| "Owl and the Pussycat" utensil | 40 |
| "Walk This Way" rap trio | 34 |
| Trio whose DJ was killed on October 30, 2002 | 44 |
| Trio that included Jam Master Jay | 33 |
| Rap group that covered Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" | 64 |
| Pioneering rap trio from Queens | 31 |
| Pioneering rap trio | 19 |
| Pioneering hip-hop group with the hit "Walk This Way" | 63 |
| Influential hip-hop group | 25 |