| HARDENED | Set start for Holmes with A Study in Scarlet |
| CODEBREAKER | Like Holmes with dancing men, a flaunter of etiquette? |
| GLITTERATI | Jet set start gathering rubbish after midnight (10) |
| BAKERSTREET | 1965 Broadway musical about Sherlock Holmes with tunes by Torontonians Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel: 2 wds. |
| ADATE | Set - (start wedding plans) |
| REDDENED | ... ends oddly with A Study in Scarlet getting flushed |
| SHERLOCK | Holmes who first appeared in "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887 |
| LESTRADE | Fictional Scotland Yard inspector in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle involving Sherlock Holmes who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (8) |
| ARTHUR | Forename of a novelist who, in his 1887 work of fiction A Study in Scarlet, created the crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (6) |
| ASIS | Leads in "A Study in Scarlet" with all the obvious flaws (2,2) |
| WATSON | Dr -; Holmes' friend and assistant in stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| HOLMES | Surname of a fictional detective who features in four novels and 56 short stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| SHERLOCKHOLMES | Fictional detective whose first appearance came in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 (8,6) |
| CARREL | From an old word for a round dance, a term for a study in a monastic cloister, thus an alcove or niche with a desk in a library for private reading (6) |
| UTAH | A Study in Scarlet setting |
| TRADER | Dealer turning up A Study in Scarlet, perhaps? |
| CONANDOYLE | A Study in Scarlet author |
| DOYLE | 'A Study in Scarlet' author |
| EXERCISE | Physical exertion for training or keeping fit; a written school task; a study in music; or, a military drill (8) |
| CAROL | An Old English round dance; the tune accompanying it; a festive hymn of joy at Christmas, such as any one of those of the Manx "Oie'll Verrey" event ; or, an enclosure for a study in a cloister (5) |
