| SOWER | Planter doing a job that could be worse |
| APPLIED | Sought a job that could be of good use (7) |
| SOSO | Like something that "could be worse" |
| RESOW | Repeat broadcast? It could be worse (5) |
| RHYME | Goes with time, but the verse could be worse (5) |
| SEROW | Asiatic antelope (This entry's bad, but it could be worse. Incidentally, it's also an anagram of WORSE) |
| SWORE | Declared it could be worse |
| CHEER | "___ up! Things could be worse!" |
| ITSOK | "Things could be worse" |
| WAGES | Money for doing a job (5) |
| USING | Doing a job with something |
| DROWSE | To be a little sleepy could be worse, having a dizzy head (6) |
| NOSURPRISES | "A heart that's full up like a landfill / A job that slowly kills you / Bruises that won't heal" (____, Radiohead) |
| IHATETO | Paul eschews intellectualism - what could be worse? (1,4,2,5) |
| NOTTOOBAD | It's a problem, but it could be worse (3,3,3) |
| NOGREATSHAKES | Bad review of milk bar could be worse? (2,5,6) |
| NEWSROOM | Information passed through here could be worse on Monday initially. (8) |
| BROWSE | Rummage? Could be worse (6) |
| ESCROW | Could be worse ringing about legal document (6) |
| EASYTASK | A job that isn't very difficult - cooking a steak, say (4,4) |
