| SLYER | "The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey": Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| MEAT | "The nearer the bone, the sweeter the __" |
| STRADIVARIUS | The older the fiddle the sweeter the horse (12) |
| ANTE | Sweeter the pot |
| LAY | "Discord oft in music makes the sweeter ____" (Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene) |
| PICASSO | Artist who was questioned about the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 (7) |
| SURFTHENET | Go on a virtual cruise, organising the theft of the runes? (4,3,3) |
| MONA | "The Theft of the ___ Lisa" (1931 Geza von Bolvary film) |
| IDENTITY | ____ theft, the fraudulent practice of using another person's name to obtain credit etc. (8) |
| OCEANS | M. L. Stedman novel, The Light Between ... |
| AVOCET | Known collectively as an orchestra, a wader that was driven to the point of extinction, partly due to the theft of its eggs for cakes and puddings (6) |
| SEEN | After the theft he was nowhere to be ___! |
| ROGUEONE | 2016 film about the theft of Empire plans |
| STOLLENSTOLEN | Headline about the theft of German bread? |
| LARCENY | Crime involving the theft of personal property (7) |
| MOONRAKER | 1979 film in which James Bond investigates the theft of a space shuttle (9) |
| FIB | Just a little one: When questioned about a cookie jar theft, the crumb-covered child who sheepishly declares "I cannot tell a lie," it's probably telling a ___ |
| TANDEMS | Ringing the changes for Stedman Doubles |
| PIPECLEANERS | Wire brushes used in crafting invented by John Harry Stedman and Charles Angel in Rochester, New York in the early 1900s (4,8) |
| OPRAH | Gayle King's long-time friend, and Stedman Graham's partner (5) |
