| MARIJUANA | In the 30s Reefer Madness was one of a series of unintentionally funny films warning of the dangers |
| REDFLAG | Warning of the danger of socialism? (3,4) |
| NCAA | Org. whose March Madness was cancelled in 2020 |
| FIREALARMS | They warn of the dangers concerning The Inferno by putting 24 down and 8 across together (4,6) |
| SPOON | Unintentionally funny man taking bow in illusionist (5,6) |
| BENDER | Unintentionally funny man taking bow in illusionist (5,6) |
| THECIRCUS | 1928 Charlie Chaplin film in which he plays an unintentionally funny clown |
| UCLA | Berkeley was the radical campus of the 60s but in the 30s it was this Los Angeles university that was described as a hotbed of communism (1,1,1,1) |
| PALMER | Artist who created visionary paintings and sketches of the Shoreham landscape and was one of a small group inspired by William Blake known as the Ancients (6) |
| MONITOR | Any tropical lizard of the genus Varanus, supposed to give warning of the approach of crocodiles |
| PHARLAP | Racing phenomenon in the 30s, this horse beat all the competition in Australasia and then in the US |
| EVACUATES | Removes people from a place of danger to stay elsewhere for the duration of the danger |
| SEVENTH | The hen's vet was one of a series (7) |
| RACHEL | Marine biologist whose 1962 book, Silent Spring, drew the attention of the world to the dangers thre |
| PITFALLS | The dangers of bringing up advice for gamblers going to New York in the autumn and heading for Saratoga (8) |
| LIFEBUOY | This-soap-company-warned-us-in-the-1930s-about-the-dangers-of-body-odour |
| OUIJA | Horror movie about the dangers of trying to contact the dead using a Hasbro toy |
| COOPERATED | Was one of a team of surgeons? (2-8) |
| DWARF | Dopey was one of a group of seven |
| SCOT | It could be said that Sir Walter was one of a Gaelic-speaking people |
