| HIGHGERMAN | Bad seed an indication of historical language (4,6) |
| LALLANS | Historical language of the people of the lowlands of Scotland (7) |
| YIDDISH | Historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews (7) |
| CARIB | Historical language of Aruba |
| INTOMYARMS | 2003 song by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (3 wds.) |
| WATERCLOCK | An indication of the flow of time |
| ANNODOMINI | An indication of assent over car's current age (4,6) |
| DOLLARSIGN | An indication of American wealth? (6,4) |
| CONFOUNDED | Boggled the mind with an indication of annoyance |
| OFTHETIMES | One paper's masthead is an indication of the prevailing culture (4,2,3,5) |
| EDGES | Bad seed, gaining weight, moves slowly (5) |
| MAXWELLANDERSON | Playwright who wrote "The Bad Seed" |
| DEBASED | Bad seed might be lowered in value (7) |
| TEASE | Kid from the bad seed ignored occasionally (5) |
| PROBLEMCHILD | *Bad seed |
| SKELETON | Kind of tree grown from Bad Seeds? (8) |
| NICK | The Bad Seed's Cave, the Christmas saint or the old one if it's the Devil |
| BARRYADAMSON | Former member of Magazine and the Bad Seeds whose third solo album, Soul Murder, was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 (5,7) |
| INTO | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ballad, "... My Arms" (4) |
| CAVE | Dig, Lazarus, Dig band, Nick ... %26 The Bad Seeds |
