Extreme misfortune (8)

I believe the answer is:

disaster

(Other definitions for disaster that I've seen before include "Star dies (anag)" , "terrible trouble" , "Catastrophe, calamity" , "Great tradegy or cataclysm" , "complete failure" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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