Decay (6)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">decay</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(rot can mean to decay)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for rot that I've seen before include "Informal nonsense" , "'Decay, decompose (3)'" , "Garbage" , "Decay, perish" , "Decomposition" .)
(Other definitions for perish that I've seen before include "Go off" , "Die - rot" , "Pass away" , "fall" , "Waste away" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">decay</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that blight is a type of desolation)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for blight that I've seen before include "Affliction" , "Plant disease or malign influence" , "Disease - pest" , "Pestilence or disease, as of potatoes" , "Curse - plague" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">decay</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for fester that I've seen before include "Become rotten, bitter or irritated" , "Putrefy" , "Ripen and generate pus" , "Go septic or cause resentment" , "Of wound, form yellow pus" .)