| HEPTAD | Proverbial vices, for example, awful pet had |
| UPROOTED | Removed awful pet odour (8) |
| EVICTS | Removes the endless vices for a change |
| EXCLUSIVE | Manufacture luxe vices for a select clientele (9) |
| FROMSCRATCH | Starting with nothing, how you knew pet had fleas? (4,7) |
| SPOTTEDDOG | Saw the pet had something substantial to eat (7,3) |
| CASHSTRAPPED | Poor pet had scraps, unfortunately |
| PRESS | Utensil for crushing garlic; a type of vice for flattening flowers; or, a device for extracting juice from grapes/olives (5) |
| CLAMP | Type of vice for a workbench; device for immobilising a vehicle; or, a heap of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth or straw (5) |
| SPIRO | Richard's vice, for a while? |
| OPTIC | Looker's plump, with vice for stripping off |
| CONCEIVE | Design is formerly held in vice for shaping |
| SLIP | Indulge in a former vice ... for this once |
| UNCOMMUNICATIVE | Doesn't talk much but might count Mum in a vice for a change (15) |
| SEVENYEARITCH | Vices - they're an awful threat to marriage (5 4,4) |
| VACCINES | Can vices become these cures for disease? (8) |
| BADHABITS | Terrible costumes for vices (3,6) |
| MISCONCEIVED | Wrongly imagined demonic vices had been upsetting (12) |
| CLAMPS | Word, thought to derive from the name of molluscs that are difficult to prise apart, for grips or vices (6) |
| COHESIVENESS | One's vices he's put in order for effective unity (12) |
