| SHOCK | An unpleasant or disappointing surprise (5) |
| GEE | Letter that's awesome or disappointing |
| PRUNE | Shrivelled wrinkled potentially unappealing dried plum likened to an unpleasant or disagreeable sour-faced grump; or, a clip of a fan-trained damson or lop of a greengage tree, perhaps (5) |
| NASTY | Behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way. (5) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| SUGARSTHEPILL | Makes an unpleasant or painful experience more palatable (6,3,4) |
| EUPHEMISM | A figure of speech by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is referred to by a milder term (9) |
| 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) |
| ENDOFTHEWORLD | Unpleasant or disastrous destiny (3,2,3,5) |
| DIRTYWORK | Unpleasant or illicit activity (5,4) |
| ALARMED | Feeling afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen (7) |
| DONKEYWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| GRUNTWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| SHITWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| THANKLESSTASK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| SCUTWORK | Unpleasant or tedious work |
| HAG | Unpleasant or ugly old woman (3) |
| NASTINESS | Unpleasant or spiteful behaviour (9) |
| PREDICAMENT | A difficult, unpleasant or embarrassing situation; tight spot (11) |
