| ABASED | Degraded thanks to being bad at sea (6) |
| REPAY | Compensate for a pear being bad at the very end (5) |
| TALENT | Thanks to being allowed to use one's aptitude (6) |
| ATTUNE | Put one in accord with melody, thanks to being up first (6) |
| STAINS | Maybe black marks, thanks to being caught in wrongdoing (6) |
| TANDEM | Thanks to being on the mend, maybe, one could ride it (6) |
| ENTAIL | Thanks to being in wrong line, bring it on as consequence (6) |
| SULLEN | Being bad-tempered, Eleanor needs us to retire first (6) |
| ANGINA | Articles about mother's ruin being bad for the ... (6) |
| CROOKS | They're bent on being bad (6) |
| NOGOOD | Being bad, get up to it (2,4) |
| RANCID | Hurried by the police, being bad (6) |
| MARSHY | Shut up, girl, about it being bad land for farming (6) |
| OUTLAW | You and Walt get nothing for being bad! (6) |
| ABUSED | Degraded since being put in a retirement place (6) |
| SORDID | Morally degraded; unpleasant and offensive (6) |
| ENERGY | Men, except for leader, degraded "Grey Power" (6) |
| ASYLUM | Sanctuary unknown in a degraded area (6) |
| SLEAZY | Morally degraded (6) |
| COBALT | This metal was named by miners using the German word for 'goblin', because it was poisonous and degraded other elements such as nickel (6) |
