| IMMOVABLE | Impassive male surrounded by a vile mob, perhaps |
| BOLSHEVISM | Political strategy? Vile mobs ordered to keep quiet! |
| STREAMER | Male surrounded by fools and duds (7) |
| CLOTHES | Male surrounded by fools and duds (7) |
| SMACKS | Blows for male surrounded by bags (6) |
| TMEN | Male surrounded by ten federal agents (1-3) |
| SIMPLE | Male surrounded by messy piles - understandable (6) |
| LIMIT | One male surrounded by illuminated boundary (5) |
| EMBROIL | Rile mob, perhaps, and start trouble |
| IMBROGLIO | Embroilment - with crooked Oil Rig Mob, perhaps? (9) |
| JOHNSON | Author of a notable dictionary with some 40,000 entries including "excise: a hateful tax", "lexicographer: a harmless drudge", "slubberdegullion: a paltry, dirty, sorry wretch" and "twittlewattle: a v |
| CESTLAVIE | A vile sect makes a verbal 22 (4,2,3) |
| LIVENUP | SHEER THE PROCEEDINGS WITH A VILE PUN PERHAPS |
| ALLEVIATION | Easing into a vile L.A. storm (11) |
| LIVELOAD | A vile old crook is moving weight on a structure (4,4) |
| JAVELIN | Within a month, fashioned a vile weapon (7) |
| KOEVIL | I had a vile weekend, having left Exeter to go and stay in a terrible place near Trowbridge (6) |
| MALE | Such a vile man - I'm possibly a product of this? (4,10) |
| CHAUVINISM | Such a vile man - I'm possibly a product of this? (4,10) |
| VIOLATE | Resort to a vile deed |
