| DISASTERAREA | Eyesore from Hell, like a rare and classical mess (8,4) |
| EROS | Piccadilly statue is a bit of an eyesore from the back (4) |
| NOTAPRETTYSIGHT | 'Eyesore' from retinopathy intermittently agitates cast (3,1,6,5) |
| PERFECTSTORM | Positive response to a weather-controlling 'X-Men' character for conjuring a rare and powerful tempe |
| BLAIRTINDALL | American oboist who wrote the 2005 memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music |
| BOBBYDAZZLER | Policeman to stun rare and excellent thing (5-7) |
| AURORABOREALIS | A rare and laborious struggle to produce a colourful display |
| ELEPHANTEARS | Organ-shaped treats that David Foster Wallace dubbed "cinnamon toast from hell" |
| ANIMALPLANET | Channel that broadcasts "My Cat from Hell" |
| OPUS | Musical work, a rare and singular opera |
| GOLDDUST | Rosemary cultivar, or a rare and valuable thing (4,4) |
| SPINNERDEMON | Peloton instructor from hell? |
| ONEINAMILLION | A rare and exceptional person |
| INERT | Like a rare gas carried in container transport (5) |
| GEHENNA | E'en hang in a sort of hell like this (7) |
| INFERNO | Changes for nine to be seen in a hell-like region (7) |
| HOUSMAN | A. E. -; poet and classical scholar who wrote A Shropshire Lad (7) |
| NOHIT | Like a rare game |
| PINK | Like a rare steak |
| PEAL | Whether a ring of a bell, a knell, an outburst of laughter or a boom of thunder, as if from hell, it is a loud noise that derives from "address, call upon, entreat, summons, yell" (4) |
