| REBUFF | A snub or unexpected rejection (6) |
| NOSED | Word with snub or hard |
| DISSES | Slang for snubs or ignores |
| ABRUPT | Word meaning sudden or unexpected; brusque or curt in manner or speech; or, precipitous (6) |
| MINUTE | Tiny tot swallowing a bit of a snub (6) |
| IGNORE | Cut a snub a spurn (6) |
| DRAMAS | Emotional or unexpected events (6) |
| NIMBUS | I'm given a snub but retaliate with a cloudy look (6) |
| REUUFF | Polish again, only to get a snub (6) |
| INSULT | Rialto isn't in illustration and that's a snub (6) |
| ICING | Frosting, glace or other such naturally white sugary sweet glaze or topping named for its resemblance to frozen water; or, alluding to its enhancement of a cake, a word for a bonus or unexpected extra |
| PUG | One of a grumble of carlins whose name also means an animal's footprint, a boxer, clay, a fox, an imp, a geometer moth, a monkey or a snub nose (3) |
| SURPRISE | From the Latin meaning "to seize", a word for a sudden attack originally, later an astonishing or unexpected event, fact or present etc; or, the feeling of mild shock as a result of said startlement ( |
| SLAPINTHEFACE | Unexpected rejection or affront (4,2,3,4) |
| BLIP | A minor or unexpected deviation from a general trend (4) |
| MANNA | Windfall or unexpected gift or benefit (5) |
| BACKLASH | What is a sudden, violent or unexpected reaction (8) |
| PEKINESE | A lapdog of a short-legged breed with long hair and a snub nose (8) |
| SLIGHT | Not much of a snub (6) |
| HITTHEJACKPOT | Have great or unexpected success (3,3,7) |
