| SEROW | Asiatic antelope (This entry's bad, but it could be worse. Incidentally, it's also an anagram of WORSE) |
| SPOONER | W A ___, English clergyman renowned for his transposition of the initial consonants of a pair of wor |
| GORAN | Tennis star Ivanisevic, whose name is also an anagram of the other 5 anagrams |
| DOWN | This entry's direction |
| FENNEL | Anise-flavoured herb - it's also an ingredient in absinthe |
| RUR | Asimov called it "bad . . . but it is immortal for that one word" |
| CLARINETS | Recital isn't bad but it is lacking certain music-makers |
| NOTTOOBAD | It's a problem, but it could be worse (3,3,3) |
| RESOW | Repeat broadcast? It could be worse (5) |
| OHWELL | "It could be worse" |
| SOWER | For the broadcaster, perhaps, it could be worse (5) |
| SWORE | Declared it could be worse |
| FOCH | Ferdinand, marshal of France who was commander in chief of Allied armies on the Western front in Wor |
| THEFEW | Name for the Allied airmen of the Royal Air Force who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second Wor |
| NOGREATSHAKES | Bad review of milk bar could be worse? (2,5,6) |
| DROWSE | To be a little sleepy could be worse, having a dizzy head (6) |
| EARHART | Pioneer lady aviator Amelia ..., disappeared in July, 1937, while nearing the end of a round-the-wor |
| CHORISTER | Durham Cathedral school, attended by Rowan Atkinson and Tony Blair, that takes its name from the wor |
| LAZY | Like someone who lies in his bed all afternoon solving/making crosswords instead of getting real wor |
| RISK | Gracie Abrams song with the lyric "It could be bad, but I wanna find out" |
