| UNLUCKY | Dogged by misfortune or failure (7) |
| STARCROSSED | Celebrity passed over and dogged by misfortune (4-7) |
| SADSACK | Person plagued by misfortune: 2 wds. |
| CHAGRIN | Mental distress caused by humiliation or failure (7) |
| HARDPAD | In rough accommodation, dogged by symptom of disease (4,3) |
| CINDERS | Discern dithering in one acting dogged by drudgery? |
| VULNERA | Wounds, misfortunes; or imperative wound! |
| DEBACLE | Utter defeat or failure (7) |
| APOLOGY | Regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure (7) |
| CRUCIAL | Decisive in the success or failure of something (7) |
| WRITING | Omen suggesting trouble or failure, ___ on the wall |
| ATFAULT | Responsible for a mistake, trouble or failure (2,5) |
| LASCALA | Where the loggionisti's reactions to performances can lead to singers' success or failure (2,5) |
| GLEE | Joy from one's own good fortune or another's misfortune; or, fostered in choral clubs/societies, a part-song for three or more solo male voices (4) |
| ACCIDENT | Word for what once meant "to fall upon" but now describes a misfortune or mishap, often a literal slip, trip or fall (8) |
| CORGI | Dogged by 100 Romans or 1 American soldier (5) |
| HARDSHIP | State of misfortune or affliction (8) |
| CONSPIRACY | Studies theft as 23 to account for misfortune or ... (10) |
| CALAMITY | Great misfortune or disaster |
| ADVERSITY | Misfortune or affliction (9) |
