| FRESSER | One who eats in unpleasant or excessive fashion (Yiddish) (7) |
| DINER | One who eats in the restaurant |
| NIBBLER | Bachelors in river with ringleader ? one who eats small amounts (7) |
| ALARMED | Feeling afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen (7) |
| PAMPERS | Treats with extreme or excessive indulgence (7) |
| GLUTTON | One who eats too much (7) |
| SOANDSO | Person regarded as unpleasant or difficult (7) |
| DIRTBAG | (Informal) Unpleasant or contemptible person (7) |
| CLEANSE | Rid of something unpleasant or defiling (7) |
| REDTAPE | Petty or excessive bureaucracy (3,4) |
| VILLAGE | Hamlet to dally in unpleasant surroundings (7) |
| MARINER | Sailor in unpleasant rain in sea off Calais? |
| TERMITE | One who eats on the house? |
| DISLIKE | Consider unpleasant or disagreeable (7) |
| RATTRAP | Traitor played part in unpleasant situation |
| MARLOWE | Kit the writer debased in unpleasant experience |
| RIPE | Connected to "harvest", word meaning "ready for picking/reaping" or "fit for eating", as in fruit or grain; mature, mellow, pungent or rich, as in cheese or wine; perfected; or, informally, excellent |
| CREEP | An act of crawling or inching slowly or stealthily; an inexorable movement of something, such as fog; or, a sycophant or otherwise unpleasant or detestable person (5) |
| DODGE | A dive, duck, sidestep, shun, veer or other evasive/hiding movement; a quibble; a ruse or cunning trick in order to avoid something unpleasant; or, an instance of two bells trading places in change-ri |
| RHETORIC | Bombast or excessive use of ornamentation and contrivance in written or spoken discourse |