| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| contretemps | An unexpected and unfortunate occurrence |
| hitting | Be affected by (an unfortunate and unexpected circumstance or event) |
| emergency | an unexpected occurrence, requiring immediate action |
| emergencies | EMERGENCY, an unexpected occurrence, requiring immediate action |
| dooming | Cause to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome |
| sandhi | modification of the sound of a morpheme (as a word or affix) conditioned by syntactic context in which it is uttered (as pronunciation of -ed as d in glazed and as in paced or occurrence of a in a cow and of an in an old cow) |
