| VEXATION | Source of grief or annoyance (8) |
| JEREMIAD | Writing or speech in a strain of grief or distress (8) |
| NEPENTHE | Homeric sorrow-banishing medicine; thus, any drink, drug or potion bringing welcome forgetfulness of grief or pain (8) |
| CONSOLED | Given comfort in times of grief or disappointment |
| AGGRIEVE | To cause grief or injury (8) |
| NUISANCE | It causes inconvenience or annoyance (8) |
| MISCHIEF | Petty misdeeds or annoyance (8) |
| YOWL | Loud, long cry of grief or pain |
| ULULATION | Middle Eastern women's cry of grief or celebration (9) |
| SIEGE | Blockade that is source of grief in Kent area (5) |
| TONGS | Source of grief among very many gripping things? (5) |
| DIRGE | Source of grief in terrible lament (5) |
| GUTTERSNIPE | Squalid type is source of grief, say, with cold amid site's confines (11) |
| ATLARGE | American later upset about source of grief in general (2,5) |
| GATE | Sources of grief are those expecting attendance money (4) |
| DULE | A dealing out; a share; one's fate; grief or sorrow; or, a flock of doves (4) |
| BUGBEAR | Source of anxiety or annoyance (7) |
| STOIC | Description of someone who deals with grief or pain without showing emotion (5) |
| REDRAGTOABULL | Source of extreme provocation or annoyance (3,3,2,1,4) |
| NUISANCEVALUE | Amount of inconvenience or annoyance that can be caused (8,5) |
