| EUPHEMISTIC | Using milder words for unpleasant terms |
| OLDBAG | Unpleasant term for an unpleasant elderly female (3,3) |
| SLEET | Role model installs shelter for unpleasant weather (5) |
| LOUSE | Look to find employment for unpleasant person (5) |
| SMEAR | Officer needs attention for unpleasant mark |
| PICKON | Single out for unpleasant treatment |
| PROBOSCIS | For unpleasant smell, little sister gets cold in nose (9) |
| OGRE | Go back with concern for unpleasant type |
| BACKBITING | Drop in support for unpleasant gossip |
| DANK | Dictionary synonym for unpleasant that means the opposite in slang |
| EFFLUVIUM | University six muffle treatment for unpleasant exhalation (9) |
| SOANDSO | Sounds like what Taylor repeats for unpleasant person (2-3-2) |
| DYNASTY | I abandon your handiwork for unpleasant series of 22s etc (7) |
| SHORTSHARPSHOCK | Low on wine, cruel son coming in for unpleasant punishment (5,5,5) |
| EUPHEMISMS | Milder terms substituted for harsher ones |
| VAPED | I left flat for ecstasy and inhaled a milder drug |
| EUPHEMISM | A milder term for something more offensive (9) |
| MIDDLEEARTH | Dicky hated milder setting for fantasy novels |
| BALMIER | It is milder for degree student, at the end of term. That's right! (7) |
| SCALLION | Name, essentially for a spring onion, but also any one of its milder or younger alliaceous kin, including leek, shallot and Welsh onion, all with tunicated skin (8) |
