| AHANGINGOFFENCE | A suspension of barrier constitutes the worst of all crimes (1,7,7) |
| DRACO | "Death repays all crimes; off with their heads!" (The Lawman) (5) |
| DYSTOPIA | Nobody stop Ian describing the worst of all worlds |
| CACOTOPIA | Not being sole leader maybe, one in flight agency gets the worst of all worlds? |
| MILLRACE | All crime swept away in this torrent of water (8) |
| CLERICALISM | All crime is up after Tory rule with ministers leading the way |
| PURGE | When all crime is legal for 12 hours |
| DARKESTTIMELINE | Worst of all possible universes |
| OPENINGSENTENCE | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g. |
| MARCONI | Italian physicist and inventor of a successful wireless telegraph (1896); he later worked on the development of shortwave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all modern long- |
| AMNESTY | Expression of surprise about retreat after a suspension of law |
| REPRIEVE | A suspension of a criminal sentence (8) |
| STAY | Sojourn; a suspension of judicial proceedings; or, a prop/support (4) |
| ARMISTICE | Start off fighting before hazardous conditions on the way cause a suspension of hostilities (9) |
| PSALM | Any one of the 150 sacred songs, poems and prayers that constitute the book of the Old Testament following the Book of Job (5) |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
| EMULSIFIER | An agent causing a suspension of one liquid in another |
| SEMICOLONS | They give a suspension of sentence, but only temporarily (10) |
| WISHBONE | A fowl's forked furcula or "merrythought", named for a custom of two people pulling it apart in blithesome divination as a good luck charm; a divided spar; or, a V-shaped element in a suspension syste |
| SWEEPSTAKE | A lottery in which the stakes of the participants constitute the prize (10) |
