| MARKOMEARA | Bad karma surrounding a more troubled golfer (4,6) |
| MISFORTUNE | Swami's fort unexpectedly contained bad karma (10) |
| NEGATIVITY | Bad karma, say, in school's annual performance |
| ILLFORTUNE | Churchill Fort unexpectedly laden with bad karma (3-7) |
| MAKEWAR | Bad karma we fight (4,3) |
| POETICJUSTICE | Bad karma coming back at someone (2 wds.) |
| ATONE | Neutralize bad karma, say |
| RIGMAROLE | Such a to-do makes a girl more troubled (9) |
| EMPEROR | Ruler more troubled for each being imprisoned (7) |
| BOTHERED | Occupying berth, more troubled (8) |
| REMOTEST | More troubled by exam, becoming most withdrawn |
| MOURNER | More troubled about location of ashes? One might be |
| ENAMOUR | Charm Una more troubled (7) |
| ALICIAKEYS | "Fallin'," Diary," "Karma" and "No One" singer (2 wds.) |
| MEADOWLARK | Karma - we twerk with old bird! (10) |
| OHTHEIRONY | "Ha, karma strikes again!" |
| FASCINATE | Attract karma, embracing a sin without a hint of conscientiousness (9) |
| WHATADIFFERENCE | A song and a dance defy karma, as the wife found out (4,1,10,1,3,5) |
| BUDDHA | Born Siddhartha Gautama into a royal family, the founder of a religion based on karma, the "four noble truths" and attaining nirvana (6) |
| HINDU | A believer in karma |
