Possible Clues:

• Detective's bloomer creating accident
• What asteroids could produce, nothing less
• Calamity in underworld nineteen's centre
• Failure of plant by detectives...
• Piece from Verdi's a sterile washout
• Dreadful event, when taken in stride, transformed
• Sudden accident
• Calamity when revolutionary tried to capture crack British troops
• Asteroids could produce this, nothing less
• Said 'Throw rest out. Absolute flop'