| FBIAGENT | "Open up! This is the..." sayer on a TV crime series: 2 wds. |
| RICHARDCASTLE | Writer who was the title character in a 2009-2016 crime series: 2 wds. |
| APB | Police alert on a TV crime show |
| BUCHANAN | Colin, actor who played Detective Peter Pascoe in a TV crime drama (8) |
| PROCEDURAL | Many a TV crime drama |
| SALAD | Little Sally! Take notice! This is the meal for a hot day! (5) |
| SELLERS | Actor with the line "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" |
| WHOA | "Hold on there!" (this is the correct spelling, and I will be taking no further questions) |
| WARROOM | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the..." (3,4) |
| ANTHOGRAPHY | AG trophy? Nah! This is the description of flowers! (11) |
| CLINIC | 150 Romans in, I see! Well! This is the place for treatment! (6) |
| OPENUP | "___ ___! This is the police!" |
| ADHERE | Notice! This is the place to stick it (6) |
| DALGLIESH | Which troubled poet and sleuth first appeared in PD. James's novel Cover Her Face (1962) and is the title of a British TV crime series (from 2021) starring Bertie Carvel? (9) |
| BERGERAC | TV crime series set on Jersey, starring John Nettles as the title character (8) |
| MEIN | Let ___! (Open up!): 2 wds. |
| CREEK | Jonathan ---, TV crime series about a magician, played by Alan Davies (5) |
| ALLAM | Roger, actor who plays Inspector Fred Thursday in the TV crime series Endeavour (5) |
| LELAND | -- Stottlemeyer, police officer played by Ted Levine in the US TV crime series 'Monk' (6) |
| BAKER | Simon _, actor in TV crime series The Mentalist (5) |
