DO TAKE THIS LITERALLY II

Credit: NY Times Crossword
May 5, 1999
Lois Sidway

The answers to the clues below, read downward, will spell out a word naming something we don't want. That word has two anagrams. One of them names something we do want, and the other something we don't want to be.

1. Community center
2. Late start
3. Can opener
4. Capital of England
5. Year end

HINT: The title is a clue.

Answers:

1. U
2. L
3. C
4. E
5. R

ULCER - LUCRE -CRUEL