| ROEG | Nicolas ?, director of films Two Deaths and Bad Timing |
| MISCUE | Strange music with an extra note - and bad timing ... (6) |
| GREATFAMINE | This tragedy started in Ireland in 1845 and ended in 1849. It was caused by late blight, which ruined the potato crop, and it resulted in about one million deaths and mass emigration. |
| THERESA | Miss Russell, actress whose films include Bad Timing and Insignificance (7) |
| DISPATCH | NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages reality show, Hatch, Match & ... (8) |
| DEMOGRAPHY | Study of births, deaths and other statistics (10) |
| BACKFIRE | Defender to shoot ___ this is the result of bad timing (8) |
| REGISTRAR | Official recording births, deaths and marriages (9) |
| REGISTRY | ___ Office, where births, deaths and marriages are recorded (8) |
| FERNHILL | 1946 poem by Dylan Thomas, the last in the book Deaths and Entrances |
| MORTALKOMBAT | Fighting video game adapted into a series of films: 2 wds. |
| PONTI | Italian producer of the 1960 film Two Women (5) |
| SARKOZY | Nicolas ?, president of France from 2007-12 (7) |
| OTAMENDI | Nicolas ?, Argentina and Manchester City FC defender |
| POUSSIN | Nicolas ?, painter whose works include 1638's Conquest of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus |
| ART | Singer-actor who played Alex Linden in 1980 film drama Bad Timing (3,9) |
| GARFUNKEL | Singer-actor who played Alex Linden in 1980 film drama Bad Timing (3,9) |
| UNPUNCTUALITY | Bad timing relating to a point in harmony |
| WISEGUYS | In this 1986 film two mobsters dream of opening the world's first Jewish-Italian delicatessen |
| MAST | Alan Ladd film, "Two Years Before the -" |
