| SALMON | Impelled by instinct, this fish fights rapids and leap high falls until it reaches its spawning grounds. |
| DOUBLETAKE | An inattentive initial look followed by a second one impelled by surprise or admiration (6,4) |
| JUMP | Leap (high, long or triple) (4) |
| STEELBLUE | Street fish-fight for colour? (5,4) |
| ZENITH | It's a hit for Zen when it reaches its greatest heights (6) |
| ICE | Cool craft: Fill a balloon with 12D until it reaches 3" in diameter, add a few drops of food coloring and place it in the freezer for about 12 hours (or leave it out in the snow overnight). Peel off t |
| ACELA | It reaches its peak speed between Mansfield, Massachusetts, and Richmond, Rhode Island |
| LEVELSOFF | An aircraft does what when it reaches its desired altitude? (6,3) |
| TOFFEE | Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage |
| SWIFT | Known collectively as a scream, bird that sleeps on the wing with special precautions if found "grou |
| WOOMERA | Aboriginal spear-throwing device; or, a town north of Adelaide, site of a vast military testing grou |
| CLASS | Grou of pu ils caug tSco ish girl (5) |
| PSINAPOD | GROU(P) OF HUM(P)BACKS |
| IOWA | Cedar Rapids and Sioux City are in this midwestern U.S. state (4) |
| AMESIOWA | Skunk River city established to serve the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad |
| LOOKSAD | "Rich men ___ and ruffians dance and leap" (Shak.) |
| TADPOLE | It could turn into toad and leap, skipping area (7) |
| SPELLBOUND | Mesmerised by stretch and leap (10) |
| ELAPSING | Sing and leap about when you see it slipping away (8) |
| SOLSTICE | From the Latin for "sun", either the shortest day of the year or its longest, when said star reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon (8) |
