| TICK | A minute and unpleasant creature (4) |
| OGRE | Unpleasant creature, so withdrawn (4) |
| TOAD | To some ladies, an unpleasant creature (4) |
| UPTO | Words with "the minute" and "date" |
| MAZE | "It's absurd to call it a ___. [...] We'll just walk round for ten minutes, and then go and get some lunch" (J K Jerome) |
| TIME | The passing of minutes and hours shown on a clock (4) |
| RATES | A dime a minute, and others |
| MARS | Where a solar day lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds |
| ODOI | Denis -. Ghana defender at Fulham FC from 2016-22 (4) l minutes and |
| UNDERTOW | Half a minute and drown, maybe, in this (8) |
| ILLUMINATE | I will waste a minute and enlighten (10) |
| KENNETH | Just a Minute and Carry On star, ------ Williams (7) |
| MILK | Draw out minutes and sort |
| GABS | Uses up one's minutes, and then some |
| NICHOLASPARSONS | English actor who presented the radio show Just a Minute and the TV game show Sale of the Century (8,7) |
| KATY | Pop star Perry who went to space for ten minutes and 21 seconds |
| DANK | (Of atmosphere) wet and unpleasant (4) |
| GRIM | Forbidding - harsh and unpleasant (4) |
| ICKY | Head off, being fussy and unpleasant (4) |
| REEK | Have a strong and unpleasant smell |
