| SPECKLEDBAND | "The Adventure of the ... ... ", tale by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the characters Sherlock Holmes and Helen Stoner (8,4) |
| SILVERBLAZE | 'The Adventure Of ------ ', 1892 story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes (6,5) |
| TWITS | A twist in the tale by Dahl for the eejits! (5) |
| LEGEND | The tale, by Washington Irving, in which schoolmaster Ichabod Crane appears (6,2,6,6) |
| OFSLEEPYHOLLOW | The tale, by Washington Irving, in which schoolmaster Ichabod Crane appears (6,2,6,6) |
| MORIARTY | Professor James ?, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes in tales by Arthur Conan Doyle (8) |
| SAWYER | Tom -; Huckleberry Finn's best friend in the tales by Mark Twain (6) |
| VALLEY | The ____ Of Fear, final novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (6) |
| SIGNOFFOUR | The ___, 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (4,2,4) |
| LABORATORY | The -, 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (4,2,4) |
| FINAL | The -- Problem, short story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty (5) |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| BUSTS | The Napoleons in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" |
| HISLASTBOW | 1917 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (3,4,3) |
| SIGNOF | 'The ---', 1890 story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Holmes and Watson (4,2,4) |
| FOUR | 'The ---', 1890 story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Holmes and Watson (4,2,4) |
| BELL | Surgeon who partly inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes; or, any one of a series of musical instruments forming the chime of a carillon (4) |
| BIBLIOPHILE | Role played by Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" ... |
| AFOOT | Come, Watson, come! The game is ___: Sherlock Holmes first words in The Adventure of the Abbey Grange. (5) |
| KIRRIN | Inspired by Corfe's hilltop ruin in the Isle of Purbeck, a Blytonian island that is the setting of many of the adventures of the Famous Five (6) |
