| CHARTERIS | Leslie -, The Saint author |
| MISSREAD | Pen name of Dora Saint, author of the Fairacre and Thrush Green novels (4,4) |
| MANN | Leslie - - - -, The Other Woman actress (4) |
| READ | Miss ?, pen name of Dora Jessie Saint, author of 1959 novel Thrush Green |
| LISA | ___ Leslie, the first player ever to dunk in a WNBA game |
| TEMPLAR | Nicknamed 'The Saint', the Leslie Charteris character introduced in Meet The Tiger in 1928 was Simon |
| SIMON | Literary creation of Leslie Charteris also known as The Saint (5,7) |
| SIMONTEMPLAR | Literary creation of Leslie Charteris also known as The Saint |
| RANGERS | The saint left the strangers with the officers in the park (7) |
| PETRINE | ___ doctrine (belief that the pope has preeminent authority and is the successor of the saint associated with the pearly gates) |
| STRANGER | The saint meets the man in the park who is new to the area (8) |
| STEMS | The saint measures the support given in the plant (5) |
| RANGER | The saint leaves the stranger in the park (6) |
| TUNISIAN | The foreigner is the one the Saint is out to capture (8) |
| STUMP | The saint gets the umpire to start the cricket here |
| KIROV | The --- Ballet, Soviet name of the Saint Petersburg ballet company, now known as the Mariinsky Ballet (5) |
| FILBERT | Word for a cob or a hazelnut thought to derive from the name of the saint whose feast day coincided with the nutting season; or, a paintbrush used for oils (7) |
| ANTITHESIS | Is the Saint perplexed? Quite the opposite! (10) |
| THIGHS | The saint gets to the high body parts |
| MOORE | Simon Templar in the British 1960s show The Saint was played to perfection by suave James Bond acto |
