| STENCH | Husband follows peculiar scent or horrible smell |
| WARM | Word used to mean ardent or eager; close to discovery, as in a game; comfortably-off; cordial or tender; fresh, as in a scent or trail; primarily red or yellow in tone; sunny; or, tepid (4) |
| ESSENCE | From "be", a word for existence or being originally, later an intrinsic nature, inherent character or indispensable quality; a plant extract for flavouring or scent; or, the concentrate, perfume or su |
| SPICE | A vegetable substance such as anise, cinnamon, clove, mace, nutmeg or vanilla; said seasonings collectively; an aromatic bouquet or scent; or, anything that adds excitement, ginger or zest (5) |
| SQUARISH | Quite conservative Queen wears dresses, husband follows (8) |
| SLAPDASH | Careless husband follows pathetic chums back (8) |
| MOHAIR | Husband follows mode of operation to ventilate fabric (6) |
| MACABRE | Which term describes something gruesome or horrible (7) |
| UGSOME | Scots word for loathsome or horrible (6) |
| BEASTLY | By covering the least dreadful, or horrible (7) |
| SPRAYS | Clouds of flying droplets of scent or seawater; or, single stems bearing leaves, flowers, berries, buds etc, or brooches resembling such (6) |
| SNIFF | Word onomatopoeic of an intake of air for scent or in scorn or sorrow; a nasal investigation; or, a mere hint (5) |
| PASTEL | Homophonous with a word for a fruit drop, lozenge or pellet of aromatic incense burned for a pleasant scent or stink, a delicate, pale or soft colour from mint to bubble gum pink (6) |
| ODOR | Scent or smell |
| TOADEGREE | Fairly horrible smell mostly trailing behind stinker, say |
| STANK | Horrible smell (5) |
| FETID | Fitted square out causing horrible smell |
| REEKS | Has a horrible smell (5) |
| INHUMAN | Horrible smell in a new packaging (7) |
| REEKING | Having a horrible smell (7) |
