| PAAVO | ___ Nurmi, the Flying Finn |
| NURMI | Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn who was one of the first athletes to win five gold medals at a sing |
| HAKKINEN | Mika, 'The Flying Finn' racing driver (8) |
| VIREN | Lasse, Finnish former long distance runner nicknamed The Flying Finn (5) |
| PAAVONURMI | Middle distance runner, nicknamed 'the Flying Finn', who won nine Olympic gold medals and set 22 world records (5,5) |
| FINN | The Flying ___, nickname of the runner Paavo Nurmi (4) |
| FINISH | Sounding like Paavo Nurmi at the end of a race (6) |
| RAN | Emulated Nurmi |
| MAILA | Ms. Nurmi of "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959) |
| VAMPIRA | Early TV goth character played by Maila Nurmi |
| FLYINGFINN | Nickname of Paavo Nurmi, winner of 12 Olympic distance running medals (6,4) |
| FOKKER | Anthony, the 'Flying Dutchman', who made fighter aircraft for Germany in the First World War and later established companies in the US and the Netherlands (6) |
| MANDALAY | "On the road to ...; Where the flying fishes play; And the dawn comes up like thunder; Out of China |
| STEAM | Vapour used to power the Mallard, Stephenson's Rocket, the Orient Express or the Flying Scotsman (5) |
| DOODLEBUG | Nickname for the jet- propelled V-1 missile used by German forces in the Second World War, also known as the flying bomb (9) |
| WASHING | Cleaning the flying member around the tree (7) |
| DARING | Like the young man on the flying trapeze, in song |
| REDFLAG | In the Socialist anthem, 'Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the ... flying here' |
| SHRAPNEL | Pole on charge in the unfinished "Case of the Flying Fragments" (8) |
| DEUCES | The Flying ---, comedy film in which Laurel and Hardy join the Foreign Legion (6) |
