| UNFAIR | Crooked and dark? (6) |
| MOUSE | The crooked man "bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked ..., And they all lived together in a little crooked house" |
| SHADIER | More crooked and possibly better at being kept in the dark? (7) |
| SKEWBALD | Mottled horse crooked and hairless |
| LYING | Crooked and heartless lackey in government... (5) |
| EWER | Were crooked and ended in jug |
| RUTHLESS | Hustlers, crooked and without pity |
| SATANICAL | It's a canal, crooked and black (9) |
| GANGSTER | Go with the rest, crooked and a racketeer (8) |
| HELLBENT | Underworld is crooked and determined to achieve at all costs (4-4) |
| DISHONEST | The pretty Miss Stone is crooked and a cheat (9) |
| RANCID | A clear case for the can: crooked and bad (6) |
| LISPECTOR | Brazilian novelist Clarice whose language is "crooked and clean," per Grace Paley |
| GETWORSE | Without last drop of water, trees grow crooked and go downhill (3,5) |
| MOVEMENT | Scorpions have two eyes on top and two to five lateral eyes along each side of their cephalothorax but they cannot see well and can only distinguish between light and dark and sense ___ |
| JABIRU | Large, white, tropical American stork with a dark, naked head and dark bill (6) |
| GANNETS | Britain's largest marine birds, with long necks and bills, white plumage and dark wing tips (7) |
| TONE | General effect created in a picture by the colour values and gradations of light and dark (4) |
| OTTER | Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5) |
| RACCOON | North and Central American mammal with a pointed muzzle, long tail and dark fur with black bands (7) |
