| LIVERISH | Teacher with very bad back getting hot and bad-tempered |
| CLIVE | Indian chief, 100, with very bad back (5) |
| INTRUDE | Be an unwelcome presence at home, getting tense and bad-tempered (7) |
| HARBINGER | Herald getting hot and bothered bearing first of reports (9) |
| UPHILL | . . . . getting hot and sick on high ascent (6) |
| HESITATED | Paused at getting hot and take a seat inside (9) |
| VANDYKEBEARD | Naked drunk with very bad hairy feature (7,5) |
| GAROTTING | US state with very bad form of capital punishment |
| VANDYKEBEARDS | Son, after cavorting naked with very bad examples of facial hair |
| ASBLINDASABAT | With very bad eyesight (2,5,2,1,3) |
| NASHVILLE | Architect with very bad English country home |
| PRIVILEGE | Puritan, injected with very bad drug, is right (9) |
| BLACKROD | House door banged on by him and bad-tempered staff (5,3) |
| SULKED | Was silent and bad-tempered (6) |
| TERSE | Steer away from the abrupt and bad tempered (5) |
| PATROL | Dad and bad-tempered giant endlessly go the rounds |
| RATTY | Too big and bad-tempered to be called mousy? (5) |
| IRASCIBLE | Dress up, cold bile seething and bad-tempered (9) |
| BEARISH | Rude and bad-tempered, a bit like a grizzly? |
| EDGINESS | A feeling of anxiety making one tense and bad-tempered (8) |
