| PATHOS | It's a tragedy the way the operating system's put together (6) |
| OPENWINDOW | It's a boon for a thief to unlock most of the operating system (4,6) |
| TRAGIC | It's a tragedy in dramatisation (6) |
| BEYOND | Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper crime tragedy, The Place ... the Pines (6) |
| HAMLET | It's a tragedy |
| PLANER | Computer system put in for a smooth operator (6) |
| NOSOUL | "When you lose control, and you got ____, it's tragedy" (Tragedy, The Bee Gees) |
| STEREO | Hi-fi system put ahead of typing (6) |
| POTATO | Irish tragedy, the ... Famine |
| TROJAN | Euripides tragedy "The ___ Women" |
| PORTED | Transferred between operating systems |
| ASHTON | Founding choreographer of the Royal Ballet whose corpus includes A Tragedy of Fashion, La fille mal gardee, Facade and A Month in the Country (6) |
| FURENS | Hercules "losing the plot", a tragedy by Seneca the Younger |
| MADAME | 1900 one-act play by David Belasco subtitled A Tragedy of Japan (6,9) |
| LIFE | It's a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in the long shot, per Charlie Chaplin |
| CATASTROPHE | Musical without a pronounced award, it's a tragedy (11) |
| MACBETH | Film drama, theatric club stage at church in the east - it's a tragedy |
| HECUBA | Priam's wife and subject of a tragedy by Euripides |
| HELLO | It's a tragedy losing part of Bible magazine |
| ANTIGONE | Learner leaving road trapping cat that's crossed - it's a tragedy |
