| DYSTOPIA | Detective in today's rag depicts how bad things were in 1984, for example (8) |
| TORNADO | Lacerated and what a fuss when things were in a whirl (7) |
| INTHREES | How bad things crop up, according to some |
| MASONRY | Building which depicts how the baby Jesus was carried? (7) |
| PESTICIDE | That is, depicts how it will kill insects (9) |
| DOWNWARDTREND | Low charge for Twitter users on The Arrow - it's a graphic illustration of how bad things are (8,5) |
| SADCOMMENTARY | Illustration of how bad things are |
| DRAW | Depict how one will prove an attraction (4) |
| YEARBOOK | Record of events in 1984, for example? (8) |
| LEAPYEAR | She could have asked him to marry her there in 1984, for example (4,4) |
| ANTIHERO | Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984, for example (8) |
| OPENBOOK | Has no secrets from golf competition before 1984, for example (4,4) |
| YEARLONG | Initially, George Orwell nearly revised all through 1984, for example |
| AGONISED | How bad the advertiser in the personal column used to feel? |
| BYRIGHTS | If things were fair |
| ICOULDGO | “I’m a short-term nostalgic; things were great ten minutes ago. If only ____ back there.” (John Cooper Clarke) |
| ALFRETON | Formerly a Norman Manor in today's Derbyshire (8) |
| NUNCHEON | Word whose etymology suggests it was a "noon-drink", but in today's sense it is more likely to be a light repast, lunch, piece of victuals eaten between meals or a snack (8) |
| TERRYFOX | The person quoted in today's puzzle |
| ANITABROOKNER | Winner of the Booker Prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac (5,8) |
