| PRECESSION | Motion of a spinning body in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone |
| METEOR | Remote spinning body (6) |
| RID | Sweep out |
| PURGE | Sweep out |
| SPINE | Series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton |
| OXIDANTS | Don't spoil the axis of rusters, say (8) |
| VELOCITY | A measure of the rate of motion of a body expressed as the rate of change of its position in a particular direction with time |
| MOMENTUM | In physics, the quantity of motion of a moving body, equal to the product of the mass and the velocity (8) |
| NORTHPOLE | The point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface (5,4) (5,4) |
| FREEFALL | Motion of a body, such as a spacecraft, under the force of gravity only; part of a parachute jump before the canopy deploys; or, any fast uncontrolled descent, dip or drop (4,4) |
| WHIPLASH | A flexible end of a switch or riding crop; or, a jerk or jolt to the neck that occurs suddenly, like the cracking motion of a scourge (8) |
| STOMACH | Internal part of the body in which the major part of digestion takes place (7) |
| SOUTHPOLE | Situated on the continent of Antarctica, this is one of two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface (5,4) |
| PROTOTYPE | One of the first units manufactured of a product, which is tested so that the design can be changed (9) |
| FORCE | At which causes a change in the motion of a body (5) |
| DRAG | Force that resists the motion of a body through air or another fluid, e.g. an aircraft in flight (4) |
| ELALAMEIN | Egyptian village that was the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Axis forces in 1942 |
| THIGH | Part of the body in which the sartorius and hamstring muscles are located (5) |
| SYNOVIAL | Describing a joint in the body in which fluid is present (8) |
| ACHIEST | A part of the body in which one is most painful |
