| ILLNATURED | Peevish and of a sickly disposition? (3-7) |
| SHIRTY | Peevish and nervous about a bit of dirt (6) |
| IMPETIGO | I'm peevish and I leave with a contagious disease |
| FRACTIOUSNESS | Peevish and irritable mood |
| SALLOW | of a sickly yellow hue |
| WAN | Of a sickly colour in Taiwan |
| GREEN | Conservationist of a sickly hue |
| ACORN | Word, related to the name of a cereal crop and of a unit of land, for any wild fruit or nut originally, later a specific cupule-borne forest fruit, squirrel snack and chief form of pig mast from which |
| JEROME | Author of the humorous account of a trip up the Thames in Three Men in a Boat and of a cycling tour in Three Men on the Bummel (6) |
| DULWICH | District in London's Southwark, site of a public school founded by Edward Alleyn as the College of God's Gift and of a picture gallery designed by Sir John Soane (7) |
| LEAF | Part of a plant and of a book (4) |
| BLACKSHEEPOFTHEFAMILY | Dubious character, part of a rhyme, and of a film they cobbled together |
| EAST | Direction of the rising sun, thus symbolic of awakenings, beginnings, rebirth and of a new dawn (4) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| SEVERN | Name of Britain's longest river and of a river in NSW (6) |
| FISHY | Fellow, one lacking confidence and of a suspect nature (5) |
| DETRIMENTAL | Tired, upset, and of a mind to be harmful (11) |
| FIONA | In and of a moniker (5) |
| PETALS | They're flowery and of a pastel variety |
| HISTORIC | The man’s doughnut-shaped and of a certain age |
