Possible Clues:

• Unfortunate that first Cuban export is rebuffed
• How very sad that the American soldier may have been in the overturned vehicle
• Calamitous, causing great sadness
• Exceedingly sad
• Goes back to having a smoke the time after: sad
• Disastrous overturning of vehicle carrying soldier
• Not happy about this tea cloth, I see
• Smoke rising beneath apartment's base: it's disastrous
• 'Very, very sad (6)'
• Not funny to smoke it up after tea