| TATTERDEMALION | Fashion detrimental to a ragamuffin |
| SUCKER | Sap that's detrimental to a plant (6) |
| BRAINDRAIN | The emigration of highly trained or qualified people, that is detrimental to a society (5,5) |
| URCHIN | A ragamuffin or tatterdemalion; old word for a hedgehog; or, a spiny globular echinoderm of the sea (6) |
| CATCAFE | Establishment where you might eat a muffin while petting a ragamuffin |
| WAIF | Spouse scratching backside stopped by a ragamuffin (4) |
| EGOS | They're detrimental to teamwork |
| AEROSOL | Type of dispenser detrimental to the ozone layer |
| ACOUSTICS | Caustic so detrimental to sound study (9) |
| UNWHOLESOME | Detrimental to your well-being (11) |
| ISLAMABAD | Is Tibetan leader detrimental to an Asian capital? (9) |
| UNHEALTHY | Detrimental to well-being (9) |
| TRIED | Harassed, which is detrimental, to start off with (5) |
| NIAGARA | A ragamuffin's no warmer in winter, put up somewhere in North America (7) |
| BSE | Figures in subsequent attack could be detrimental to stock (3) |
| CHARM | That's lucky: cold would be detrimental to it (5) |
| RASCAL | Ragamuffin, rather a scallywag at heart |
| STAND | Introductions to St Thomas Aquinas not detrimental to one's point of view (5) |
| SEAURCHIN | Hear! See! Ragamuffin is a creature found in the sea (3,6) |
| TATTERED | Word meaning frayed, threadbare or torn, as in the clothes of a guttersnipe, mudlark, ragamuffin or urchin (8) |
