| NUDISTS | It sounds bad, lacking love, but they're in the pink (7) |
| NUDIST | It sounds bad - not so, he's in the pink (6) |
| OMINOUS | I'm to be given the onus for nothing? Sounds bad! (7) |
| INMATES | Popular friends - but they're in prison (7) |
| NESTING | One lacking love and pain, sitting in a home (7) |
| BABYISH | Infantile boy lacking love, first person in party (7) |
| BRONCHO | Wild horse's complaint: it is lacking love (7) |
| GORILLA | The French girl shows love but is apt to monkey about (7) |
| AMOROSO | Tenderly conveying a love -- but almost completely gloomy within (7) |
| HEMLOCK | He will scoff about first love, but its growth is poisonous (7) |
| AVENGES | He leaves heaven and goes without love but gets retribution! (7) |
| PROSPER | Shakespeare character has lost love but will do well (7) |
| HOARDER | More difficult to hold on to love but she can't let things go (7) |
| DIEDOWN | Awfully winded about love, but it will blow over (3,4) |
| NODOUBT | Indicate approval and love, but unsettled, certainly (2,5) |
| LEAST | Stale but they're in the smallest number (5) |
| SAMOA | Western isles? Maybe, but they're in the S. Pacific! |
| FALLINGFLAT | Johnny lowered the note by a semitone. 'That sounds bad, too!' he cried. 'It's ___ like a bad comic' |
| REGRESSION | Word in medicine that sounds bad but is often good |
| HEADS | Nuts they may be, but they're in charge! |
