| BREAKFASTTIME | "The awful crime of being bright at ___" (Harry Graham) (9,4) |
| BIGAMY | The crime of being married to two persons at the same time (6) |
| LIMERICK | Irish city of fifty thousand concealing one awful crime (8) |
| ATROCITY | Crime of being paralytic, or tanked up? (8) |
| PIRACY | Crime of being pious yet saucy! (6) |
| STARLIT | Hole round the black stuff is bright at night (7) |
| BRAINY | Bright at the start but wet later |
| MAIDOFTHE | The ?, musical play by Harold Fraser-Simson, Harry Graham and others that premiered in 1916 (4,2,3,9) |
| MOUNTAINS | The -, musical play by Harold Fraser-Simson, Harry Graham and others that premiered in 1916 (4,2,3,9) |
| POTTERS | What aimless person does for Harry, Graham and Dennis? (7) |
| METRIC | Awful crime including tons of quantification |
| SEQUIN | Points to one of several children as being bright |
| UNDIMMED | In the round I'm meditating about it being bright still (8) |
| CLEVER | Many at a bar, being bright (6) |
| CAPITAL | Dodgy dealer's wealth comes from awful crime (7,7) |
| OFFENCE | Dodgy dealer's wealth comes from awful crime (7,7) |
| MERCILESS | Awful crime, to a smaller extent cruel (9) |
| DRAPERY | Sober about awful crime? Could be curtains! (7) |
| BESMIRCH | Awful crimes in outskirts of Bath damage its reputation (8) |
| SHALLOT | Bulb very bright at last across room |
