| PANDORASBOX | Mythological container that held all the evils of the world until it was opened (8,3) |
| JUBILANT | On top of the world until jab administered! (8) |
| IMPATIENCE | One man held all the cards on his own (10) |
| HOPE | What was left in Pandora's box once it was opened and emptied of all evils? (4) |
| MSDOS | It was opened before Windows |
| JAMESCALLAGHAN | Only MP to have held all four great offices of state |
| BANGKOK | Bank note held; all right for capital? (7) |
| PANDORA | Criticise girl for releasing the evils of the world? (7) |
| DAWNREDWOOD | Coniferous tree (metasequoia) known only as a fossil until it was found growing in China in 1941! (4,7) |
| ARAL | ___ Sea (body of water that was the 4th-largest lake in the world until the 1980s when it dried up due to pollution) |
| MLK | Epithet for a civil-rights activist honored each January who said, "The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism" |
| VILLAINY | The evil of the gangster with an unknown quantity (8) |
| HEARD | World Party "Drive the car around the world, until you get ___" |
| GOMEZ | US singer who was the most followed Instagram user in the world until October 2018, Selena ___ (5) |
| TORCH | What kind of object was the logo of the Conservative Party until it was replaced by a tree in 2006? (5) |
| ADVICE | Warning of the evils of modern times? (6) |
| RACKRENT | Novel by Maria Edgeworth, which deals with the evils of absentee Irish landlordism (6,8) |
| CASTLE | Novel by Maria Edgeworth, which deals with the evils of absentee Irish landlordism (6,8) |
| JUSTTALXANDTALX | What an orator with views on the evils of x-rated movies does? |
| MYLEFTFOOTLOOSE | Movie about a disabled painter/Musical about the evils of dancing |
