| PLUMBED | Saw the worst of fruit plot in the garden (7) |
| PLUMBS | Goes through the worst of fruit bats after gutting (6) |
| BLOOMED | Flowered, it would appear, in a plot in the garden (7) |
| BREED | Raise again in a plot in the garden |
| BREWS | Pronounced damage to fruit plots (5) |
| SADDEST | Dead drunk in South Street and in the worst of spirits (7) |
| CYNICAL | Believing the worst of human nature (7) |
| TANGLED | Twisted plot in the climax directed (7) |
| LOSEOUT | Get the worst of it |
| AQUAMAN | Worst of the Super Friends, many say |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
| BREEDS | Raises again in plots in the garden (6) |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| AHANGINGOFFENCE | A suspension of barrier constitutes the worst of all crimes (1,7,7) |
| THUNDERALL | Opinion that the ordinal suffix from 4 onward is the worst of the group? |
| GROSSEST | The worst of the worst gets Ross drunk (8) |
| OPENINGSENTENCE | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g. |
| DREGS | The worst of the worst? (5) |
| BEST | "It was the ___ of times, it was the worst of times" |
| TIMES | "It was the best of ___, it was the worst of ___" |
