| SESTINA | Intricate verse form rewriting isn't easy, but not unknown |
| LIGHTBREEZE | Answer to clue? It's easy, but it causes small wavelets (5,6) |
| CUSHY | Easy but well-paid, ... job |
| JUNKFOOD | Easy but deleterious dietary option (4,4) |
| ETERNAL | Not an insider but not unknown for ever (7) |
| RARITY | It's unusual, artist showing opulence, but not unknown |
| TURTLE | Utterly unusual, but not unknown, sea creature |
| ITALIANVERMOUTH | It's unusual, Marilyn, but not unknown - have it out (7,8) |
| RESURFACE | New, but not unknown, Surrey cafe? That's come up again (9) |
| IMPRESSIONIST | Wow supporter of Israel but not unknown painter |
| EEL | A possible catch that isn't easy to hold |
| TIE | Sports fixture that isn't easy at first |
| KERMIT | *It isn't easy "bein' green" for him |
| QUARRELSOME | To be cantankerous isn't easy-going |
| TRYHARD | Do one's best though it isn't easy (3,4) |
| RARE | It isn't easy to find meat so underdone (4) |
| PILCHARD | Returning lip to Charlie isn't easy, as it could be a sort of red herring? (8) |
| GREYAREA | What may be a bit of a "hairy" problem that isn't easy to categorise |
| PENTAMETER | Verse form - write dull conclusion? Not conclusion |
| RIMA | 'The Divine Comedy's' verse form, terza ___ |
