| HELLHOLE | Unpleasant or evil place (8) |
| VICARAGE | A piece of cloth in evil place? One of those places where the cloth may be found (8) |
| TERRIBLE | Unpleasant or bad (8) |
| SCUTWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| SHITWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| EFFLUVIA | Unpleasant or harmful discharges |
| SINISTER | Giving an impression of harm or evil |
| CREEP | An act of crawling or inching slowly or stealthily; an inexorable movement of something, such as fog; or, a sycophant or otherwise unpleasant or detestable person (5) |
| THEDARKSIDE | Evil place provided by bad-hearted kids |
| DODGE | A dive, duck, sidestep, shun, veer or other evasive/hiding movement; a quibble; a ruse or cunning trick in order to avoid something unpleasant; or, an instance of two bells trading places in change-ri |
| STICKY | A gummed label or Post-it note; a word generally meaning adhesive, gluey, hot, humid, muggy, tenacious or unpleasant; or, paired with "willie", a clinging plant also called cleavers (6) |
| ALARMED | Feeling afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen (7) |
| DIRTYWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| DONKEYWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| GRUNTWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| THANKLESSTASK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| ENDOFTHEWORLD | Unpleasant or disastrous destiny (3,2,3,5) |
| NASTY | Unpleasant or disgusting. (5) |
| HAG | Unpleasant or ugly old woman (3) |
| NASTINESS | Unpleasant or spiteful behaviour (9) |
