### Clue: Wells up with old soak outside — this place is disgraceful (8)
### Answer: DOGHOUSE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: this place is disgraceful
  [R(… up, in a down clue) H.G.(Wells, English writer who wrote, amongst others, "The War of the Worlds") **plus**(with) O(abbrev. for "old")] **contained in**(… outside) DOUSE(to soak/to drench, with a liquid like water).
Defn:  A metaphorical place where disgraced persons are sent to, and which, as one might say, is therefore full of disgrace.