Complete Clue List
Across
1. Viola Beach's bass player ____ Lowe (1988-2016) died in a vehicle smash (5)
4. R&B and 14D singer Joe ____ (1937-1964) died from heart problems (9)
9. Improvement (7)
10. Murdered American musician Mia Zapata (1965-1993) was lead singer of this Seattle punk band (3,4)
11. American jazz trumpeter Richard ____ (1984-2011) died from an aortic aneurysm (6)
12. African nationality of rapper MohBad (1996-2023) (8)
15. English singer/songwriter ____ Winehouse, died from alcohol poisoning (3)
16. Words of regret, often said in hindsight (2,4)
17. 32A played guitar and fiddle for American country-music singer ____ McEntire (4)
20. A drug overdose killed musician ____ Thain (1948-1975) (also see 4D; 4)
22. Malcolm Hale (1941-1968), lead guitarist of American sunshine pop band "____ and Our Gang" (6)
23. Instagram upload, informally (3)
25. Any place of pain and turmoil (8)
26. Declared; "I told him not to join that stupid club", Wendy Fradenburg Cobain O'Connor (6)
28. Possible paths: it's good to have them (7)
30. 1D played the role of Trini Kwan on TV series "Mighty ____ Power Rangers" (1993-95) (7)
31. Pete Ham (1947-1975) was the leader of this Welsh rock band (9)
32. Himself a country-music singer, ____ Austin (1964-1991) died in a plane crash (also see 17A, 5)
Down
1. Vietnamese-American actress (1973-2001) died in a car crash (also see 30A; 4,5)
2. Cartoonist Luke ____ produced 2018's "The 27 Club" comic series in "MAD Magazine" (7)
3. Hostile environment, where a person might make unwise decisions (5,3)
4. 20A was a bass player for the English rock band "Uriah ____" (4)
5. American swing pianist ____ Jaffe (1918-1945) suffered from high blood pressure (3)
6. The year 20__ saw 15A "join the 27 Club of rock stars" (number as a word, 6)
7. A number of people in the "27 Club" chose this means of ending it all (7)
8. NINA'S strange Hebrew month (anag., 5)
13. "No man is an ____, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." John Donne (6)
14. Spiritual music and Grammy category (6)
18. Mishaps: transportation-linked ____ have caused the deaths of many "27 Club" members (9)
19. Wildly emotional (8)
21. In the same family: Benjamin Keough (1992-2020), son of Lisa Marie and grandson of Elvis Presley (7)
23. Professional baseballer Tyler Skaggs (1991-2019) often started in this position (7)
24. HIS RIO became the manga "____ Experience" (2013) involving "27 Club" musicians (anag., 6)
25. Nuclear weapon (1-4)
27. Assassinated Indian singer/songwriter ____ Singh Chamkila (1960-1988) focused on Punjabi music (4)
29. Slump, OR initialism for American labor union for performers (3)