| SHOOTINGSTAR | Ghost train so oddly like a rocket? |
| SCOTSMAN | The Flying ___, express London-Edinburgh train, so named in 1924 (8) |
| FORMALISATION | Strict order of mail train so arranged |
| THOU | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| WHEREART | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| OBROTHER | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1,7,5, 3,4) |
| ARSONIST | Trains so curiously to be a criminal |
| SILENTLY | Like an ass holding 10 oddly like a mouse? (8) |
| LEONINE | Note about one oddly like a big cat |
| ASCETIC | Ice acts, oddly, like a hermit (7) |
| FUNFAIR | Attraction with a hook-a-duck stall and a ghost train, eg (7) |
| DRIBBLE | Go like a Rocket, in a way |
| ADASTRA | Designed as a dart going like a rocket (2,5) |
| ISOSCELES | Less ice so, oddly, it becomes a triangle |
| NEC | Major Japanese company HQ'd in a 43-story tower shaped like a rocket |
| SOAR | Go up like a rocket |
| ZOOM | Move like a rocket |
| ARCED | Proceeded like a rocket |
| ASCENDING | Going like a rocket, when fitted with carbon tip (9) |
| WHOOSHED | Whatever person operator got rid of went like a rocket (8) |