| Lacking good manners |
UNCOUTH |
| Long dissertation |
THESIS |
| Non-stick coating |
TEFLON |
| Perfect happiness |
BLISS |
| Record of a meeting's decisions |
MINUTES |
| Refrain |
DESIST |
| Rehearsal |
DRYRUN |
| Rubbed out |
ERASED |
| Run-down — filthy |
SQUALID |
| Small biting fly |
MIDGE |
| Toxic protein from castor oil plant seeds |
RICIN |
| Trashed (anag) — most oppressive |
HARDEST |
| Yield to another's opinion |
DEFER |
