| CRUDEOIL | It's not refined, but it could be slick |
| CUTLASS | Refined, but not grand, weapon |
| PREEN | How to be slick even with Public Relations (5) |
| OIL | A film of this will be slick! (3) |
| GLIB | Force politician to be slick (4) |
| ANDANTE | Neat and refined, but rather slow |
| FINE | Of high quality, refined, but colourless (4) |
| LADYLIKE | Refined but effeminate? (8) |
| PLEBEIAN | Enable pi to be computed but not refined (8) |
| INTOLERANCE | It's not shown by the patient, but it could be nice to learn (11) |
| CORN | It's very ancient humour_ but it could be growing (4) |
| POLISH | Not French apparently, but it could be |
| ITCH | It goes to church but it could be rash (4) |
| NOTTOOBAD | It's a problem, but it could be worse (3,3,3) |
| TATTY | Statutory, not ours, but it could be scruffy (5) |
| ORB | It's global but it could be British |
| CRUDE | Cured, perhaps, but not refined |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, abbr. "Yes" but not refined way? |
| SEROW | Asiatic antelope (This entry's bad, but it could be worse. Incidentally, it's also an anagram of WORSE) |
| CANOFWORMS | It's complicated! (But it could be useful for anglers) (3,2,5) |
