February 3rd, 2016, 04:16
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Oops, I thought I had responded but apparently never did...
To me three that suit best are TAG, LAP and TIME. I think pfrase "time is running" exist in english too. But TAG/LAP could also be the answers for the previous clue (clothe), so I think ipecac wants us to go back to those. HORSESHOE is another possibility for clothe and running, but I don't like it as much. Time suits for this clue but I don't think it suits for any previous clues like TAG/LAP does. For this clue, I really don't like TORCH/KEY. We're missing one ortodoxy word still... what could that be? I don't see any of the running words overlapping with them. I'm pretty sure that word has to be STATE.
So I'd probably go LAP -> TAG.