| ILLFAVOURED | Ugly and sick but given preferential treatment (3- 8) |
| BADTEMPERED | Got hot under the collar about the faulty metal treatment (3-8) |
| SEED | Term for any of the 32 top players given preferential treatment in the draw for tennis tournaments. (4) |
| KICKSTARTED | Got energetically under way, but given the boot? |
| FAVOURITISM | It is almost a pet doctrine, such preferential treatment (11) |
| ILL | Sick but willing to fly out (3) |
| GHOULISH | Sick but soul high, amazingly (8) |
| FAKER | One who acts sick but isn't really sick |
| SCREECHES | Is harsh and shrill but given credit among various cheeses (9) |
| BLUNDEROUT | Decrepit, but given a rousing send-off (7-3) |
| SHREK | Kids' classic that opens "His mother was ugly and his father was ugly" |
| GARGOYLE | You're so ugly and you're made from a grey log! (8) |
| PREVAILING | Two priests sick, but gaining strength (10) |
| ILLYETSTRONG | Sick but still powerful ... or an alternative form of storytelling? |
| TENNISPLAYER | Ian presently sick but he may be rallying (6,6) |
| RETCH | It can make you sick but just enough of the claret cheers (5) |
| ILLEGAL | Sounds sick but getting two under par could get you arrested (7) |
| CELLMATE | The friend, after church, left April at last, but given time will live with another! (8) |
| SHORTEND | But, given stick, it's that bit no one wants to be left with! (5,3) |
| ILLUSE | Demonstrate airbrushing Italian restaurant ___ that's poor treatment (3-3) |
