| LAWFUL | Headline, very bad but permit ed (6) |
| DISTEMPER | Permits Ed to paint it (9) |
| NAUGHT | Nothing bad but ultimately unsatisfactory (6) |
| ROASTS | Says it's bad but cooks it (6) |
| RANCID | Is going bad, but still managed to lead detectives (6) |
| EVIL | Very bad, but very short, in fib that turns up (4) |
| AWFUL | It is very bad, but legal, to be beheaded (5) |
| ICARUS | He failed to fly high, bad but not too atrocious (6) |
| INATTHEFINISH | The fish in a tin is bad but might come good (2,2,3,6) |
| ILL | Bad, but less than villainous (3) |
| IWONT | Violent Femmes "They'll hurt me bad but ___ mind" |
| CLARINETS | Recital isn't bad but it is lacking certain music-makers |
| INGLENOOK | Evidently valley life all bad - but this corner's cosy |
| TAINT | It is bad, but one might say it isn't! (5) |
| VILLAIN | This rogue's certainly bad, but in vain (7) |
| LIAR | "Be bad, but at least don't be a ___": Tolstoy |
| LEASTWORST | Bad, but better than the alternatives |
| REGRESSION | Word in medicine that sounds bad but is often good |
| OFF | Bad, but shortly to be powerless (3) |
| ALAS | "It's too bad, but ..." |
