| MORBID | Suggesting the horror of death and decay |
| MACABRE | Suggesting the horror of death and decay |
| GANGRENE | Death and decay of tissue as the result of interrupted blood supply, disease or injury (8) |
| ANNEFRANK | The girl in the attic whose diary made the horrors of the Holocaust personal to a generation of youn |
| NAPALM | "I love the smell of ___ in the morning" (Robert Duvall line illustrating the horrors of war) |
| NAOMIKLEIN | Author who described her book "Doppelganger" as being about "the horror of the society that flips fascist from within" (September, 2023) |
| XOLOTL | Quetzalcoatl was the symbol of death and resurrection. With his companion, a dog-headed god, he was said to have descended to the underground hell of Mictlan to gather the bones of the ancient dead. |
| DISTASTE | The horror of one's experience under duke |
| VICE | The horror of Gomorrah |
| INGRUIT | It approaches threateningly, eg the horror of war, Aen. 2.301 |
| AWFULNESS | The horror of a legal state losing its head (9) |
| BOOK | Drama about a girl who uses reading as a refuge from the horrors of WWII, The ___ Thief (4) |
| RUDKIN | David ___, playwright whose works include Afore Night Come, The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Lig |
| YAMA | Hindu god of death and ruler of the underworld, also known as Kala and Dharmaraja (4) |
| OBIT | Notice of death and biography of the deceased (4) |
| SAMSARA | Concept of life as an ongoing cycle of death and rebirth, central to religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism (7) |
| THANATOS | Greek personification of death and son of Nyx (8) |
| GOYA | Which Spanish artist's etchings The Disasters of War depict the cruelty and horror of war? (4) |
| PAPILLON | Dog of a toy breed with ears suggesting the form of a butterfly (8) |
| USANDTHEM | American article starts debate with those people suggesting the existence of an in-group and an out-group |
