| NICKCAVE | The Bad Seeds vocalist (4,4) |
| SKELETON | Kind of tree grown from Bad Seeds? (8) |
| NICK | The Bad Seed's Cave, the Christmas saint or the old one if it's the Devil |
| BARRYADAMSON | Former member of Magazine and the Bad Seeds whose third solo album, Soul Murder, was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 (5,7) |
| CAVE | Dig, Lazarus, Dig band, Nick ... %26 The Bad Seeds |
| INTO | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ballad, "... My Arms" (4) |
| INTOMYARMS | 2003 song by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (3 wds.) |
| MAXWELLANDERSON | Playwright who wrote "The Bad Seed" |
| TEASE | Kid from the bad seed ignored occasionally (5) |
| EVIL | Like Rhoda in "The Bad Seed" |
| EVILDOERS | Really bad seeds spoilt red olives (9) |
| BACKINGGROUP | Junior Walker's All Stars or Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, eg (7,5) |
| EDGES | Bad seed, gaining weight, moves slowly (5) |
| DEBASED | Bad seed might be lowered in value (7) |
| HIGHGERMAN | Bad seed an indication of historical language (4,6) |
| PROBLEMCHILD | *Bad seed |
| VANCLEEF | Lee, the Bad actor in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (3,5) |
| WILDWEST | "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" locale |
| RESTRAIN | Check the others before the bad weather (8) |
| SCRATCHY | Like the bad record of the old devil (8) |
