| PRETTYUGLY | Not very attractive, paradoxically (6,4) |
| ALDERS | Trees in not very attractive Hampshire town (6) |
| NOTHINGTOWRITEHOMEABOUT | Not very attractive (colloq.) |
| UNPREPOSSESSING | Having stewed prune as starter? Not very attractive |
| HOMELY | Not very attractive |
| UNAPPEALING | From Penang, pilau that is not very attractive (11) |
| SHORTSTORY | Sometimes a tall tale, paradoxically (5,5) |
| GILBERTIAN | Liberating, free and paradoxically humorous (10) |
| WETMARTINI | Drink with dry vermouth, paradoxically |
| GOLDENGOAL | Sudden-death score that paradoxically may land football teams silverware |
| OPENSECRET | It's paradoxically known, so pretence is wasted (4,6) |
| TRIP | Paradoxically, when it's round it's not circular |
| TWOS | Things not found in binary code, paradoxically |
| REDEYED | Looking very blue, paradoxically (3-4) |
| UMPIRE | Word, paradoxically from "not equal", for a neutral tennis/cricket arbiter (6) |
| AUGITE | Hornblende-like pyroxene mineral, etymologically linked to turquoise and from "lustrous, bright", yet paradoxically not light, but deep bottle-green or black as a chess knight (6) |
| EVEN | Like certain odds, paradoxically |
| JUMBOSHRIMP | Paradoxically named crustacean |
| FATCHANCE | Slim hope, paradoxically! (3,6) |
| LIFEPRESERVER | Cosh (paradoxically) (4,9) |
