| NASTY | Behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way. (5) |
| NASTINESS | Unpleasant or spiteful behaviour (9) |
| NASTILY | In a spiteful way |
| CATTILY | Tacitly mistreated in a spiteful way (7) |
| MALICIOUSLY | African country caught with financial debts lately marginalised in a spiteful way (11) |
| 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) |
| SHOCK | An unpleasant or disappointing surprise (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 |
| HATER | Informally, a grudging or spiteful person who disparages others (5) |
| UNNATURAL | Behaving in an artificial way |
| ACTINGUP | Behaving in an unruly way, like bratty kids: 2 wds. |
| RUNNINGRIOT | Behaving in an unruly way, organising profuse display (7,4) |
| AFFECTED | Emotionally moved, behaving in an unnatural way (8) |
| BREATHINGFIRE | How dragon might be behaving in an intimidating way (9,4) |
| ASGOODASGOLD | Behaving in an exemplary way (2,4,2,4) |
| MAKING | Behaving in an odious way? (6,11) |
| COMPARISONS | Behaving in an odious way? (6,11) |
| SUGARSTHEPILL | Makes an unpleasant or painful experience more palatable (6,3,4) |
| WEIRDIE | Uncanny that is a person behaving in an odd manner (7) |
