| SIN | A wrongful act |
| TORT | A wrongful act that is cause for a lawsuit |
| TORTE | It's a wrongful act to take last bit of the cake! |
| TORTILLA | Unwell after a wrongful act first adulterates unleavened bread (8) |
| REA | Criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (3) |
| CHEAT | He may be found in a wrongful act |
| SUBORN | Wicked bosun occupied by Rex's bribe to commit a wrongful act (6) |
| REUS | In law, a wrongful deed forming a component of a crime, as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (4) |
| ACTUS | In law, a wrongful deed forming a component of a crime, as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (5) |
| ESCORT | Whether referring to a wrongful removal in a criminal way or a poltergeist's trick of "spiriting" an object astray, it's from Latin's "carry away" (6) |
| BADRAP | It might result in a wrongful lockup |
| FRAMEUP | It can cause a wrongful conviction |
| USURPER | Active pursuer of a wrongful heir (7) |
| DREYFUS | ___ Affair (1890s scandal involving a wrongful treason conviction) |
| ERRONEOUSLY | Surely no hero, husband leaving, going off in a wrongful manner (11) |
| HATED | What a wrongful death would be, no doubt (5) |
| TRIALANDERROR | Hit or miss affair indi cating a wrongful conviction? (5,3,5) |
| INCORRECTLY | Cycle into radius twice in a wrongful manner |
| BLUELINE | 1988 documentary that exposed a wrongful conviction, The Thin - - (4,4) |
| MALFEASANCE | A false man misled the Anglican Church in wrongful act |
