| ILLSTARRED | Unlucky enough to be badly cast as a leading actor |
| ASPERSIONS | They are badly cast as people capturing island |
| STARRED | Marked left-winger as a leading actor first (7) |
| THEMAINMAN | Like a leading actor in a flick, is this, as Gregory Peck was in Moby Dick (3,4,3) |
| YULBRYNNER | British nanny, leaving North America returned amidst Christmas with brother... finally to become a leading actor (3,7) |
| ESTIMATION | View testimonial to be badly-written and lacking in length |
| OSCARWILDE | Writer who quipped "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast" |
| INGOODPART | How one might describe a leading actor favourably? (2,4,4) |
| EISENHOWER | Where one is cast as a WWII Commander |
| HARDDONEBY | Don Brady, he suffered having been badly treated (4,4,2) |
| ILL | So fitting as to be badly suited? (3) |
| STARCROSSED | How a leading actor came over as a Shakespearean lover? (4-7) |
| NAUGHTY | Any thug turning out to be badly behaved (7) |
| ESTRANGED | At loggerheads as rage tends to be badly expressed (9) |
| DEVON | Figure to be badly done out of a piece of land (5) |
| PROVE | Turn out to be badly overpriced, for a start (5) |
| SETUP | Establish to be badly upset (3,2) |
| BIASED | Be said to be badly prejudiced (6) |
| ILLSUITED | Inappropriate to be badly dressed (3-6) |
| DAIS | Platform for speaker said to be badly presented |
