| ISHOT | "___ the Sheriff" (Bob Marley) |
| SHOT | "I ___ the Sheriff" (1973 Bob Marley song) (4) |
| SHES | "___ The Sheriff" (Suzanne Somers sitcom) |
| TATE | Heck ___, the sheriff in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| ISTHISLOVE | Bob Marley song I Shot the Sheriff's intro, live, remastered (2,4,4) |
| MICAHS | The sheriff on "The Rifleman" and others |
| MISTS | Films Marley's I Shot the Sheriff, primarily (5) |
| REPOSSESS | On the subject of those following the sheriff on board? Take that back! (9) |
| LISTS | Records Wailers at the centre introducing I Shot The Sheriff (5) |
| NOTTINGHAM | Robin Hood's foe played by Alan Rickman in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, the Sheriff |
| BADGEOFOFFICE | The sheriff gets it off his chest - it goes with the job (5,2,6) |
| WAILERS | Original band that sang "I Shot the Sheriff," with "the" |
| FRANCESCOMOSER | Italian cyclist nicknamed The Sheriff, winner of the 1984 Giro d'Italia |
| ERICCLAPTON | I Shot the Sheriff singer with the 1992 song Tears in Heaven: 2 wds. |
| BOB | Forename of the singer who wrote 'I Shot the Sheriff', released in 1973 (3) |
| SEQUESTER | Someone please explain how this word to describe sucking carbon out the air and letting it revitalise soil came to be used when it is more often used to describe the sheriff "borrowing all your stuff" |
| DEPUTY | It's the duty of EP to assist the sheriff (6) |
| POSSE | The sheriff's men are seen by the Italian river at this point (5) |
| TIPSTAFF | Indicate to the employees that the sheriff's officer is here (8) |
| ANGE | Barney's nickname for his boss, the sheriff |
