| ABYSMAL | Diced lamb, say - very bad! (7) |
| TRASH | Say very bad things about |
| OSSICLE | Very large small implement, bone and say very (7) |
| WIDEBOY | Del Trotter, say, very, very overweight? (4,3) |
| FAUVIST | Matisse, say, very interested at first in Goethe's work |
| MAESTRO | Rattle, say, very nearly storms out without a note |
| REDMEAT | Engineers made construction square for lamb, say (3,4) |
| WINDBAG | Bore who talks a great deal and says very little |
| DEPLORABLE | Bad beer, old pal? Very bad! |
| SOSO | So I repeat - it's neither very good nor very bad! |
| AWFUL | Legal to be beheaded? That's very bad! (5) |
| SATAN | Santa this one's very bad! (5) |
| COBOL | Language be, say, very good, some say, outside (5) |
| ASSWEETASANUT | Like sugar from Brazil, say, very satisfactory |
| WAFFLE | Talk but say very little! (6) |
| PLUPERFECT | Had been, say, very well done (10) |
| ILLEGITIMATE | Wrong, say, very familiar but having no name? |
| FLUFFY | Hairy fly buzzing round you, say, very loudly (6) |
| TRESPASSER | One poaches, say, very French old-fashioned starter in restaurant (10) |
| MURMUR | Say very quietly |
