Possible Clues:

• Rustic's family deserts him - it's a blow
• Phrenologist's interest
• Displace, as from a flight
• Result of bad parking?
• Hit
• Evidence of pregnancy — knock (into)
• Road warning sign warning
• Injury coming from what 12 down may have offered without hesitation
• Word after fist or baby
• Hit head on mirror entering tavern the wrong way