### Clue: Essential thing wily caliph grasps is to reach good speed (3,1,4)
### Answer: HIT A CLIP 
 ### Explanation: Definition: to reach good speed
  **Anagram of**(wily) CALIPH **containing**(grasps) IT(an indefinable quality of an entity,essential thing, as in "he has it in him" or "the it-factor", I think)