| TWINPEAKS | 1990s TV series about a murder in a town in Washington |
| VICARAGE | Type of clergy house central to a village and the scene of a murder in a novel by Agatha Christie (8) |
| YAKIMA | Blather "I'm a town in Washington" (6) |
| SKY | Pie in the ___, 1990s TV series about a restaurateur-cum-detective |
| INCOLDBLOOD | A 'non-fiction novel' by Truman Capote about a murder in Kansas |
| RISINGSUN | 1992 novel by Michael Crichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of a Japanese corporation (6,3) |
| BODIES | Bill, initially, Odie's series about a murder victim from different eras (6) |
| YORK | A town in WA |
| ELMA | Town in Washington, Iowa, or New York |
| LACEY | Town in Washington |
| BARNSTAPLE | My pal, who lived in my street in Brane, now has a new place in a town in North Devon (10) |
| SHERWOOD | UK series about murders in a former mining town |
| OWNING | Having a proprietary interest in a town in Germany (6) |
| HAMISH | ____ Macbeth, detective played by Robert Carlyle in a 1990s TV series (6) |
| PLUMISLAND | 1997 Nelson DeMille bestseller with a double murder in a research lab: 2 wds. |
| HAILSTONE | One of these that fell in a town in Argentina in 2018 reportedly measured 9.3 inches across, the largest ever recorded |
| ASARULE | Sport found in a town in Greater Manchester, usually (2,1,4) |
| ISANGEL | One beginning to spy on darling in a town in Vanuatu (7) |
| KINGSLYNN | Cambridge college girl in a town in Norfolk (5,4) |
| SALE | Disposal of dirty French goods in a town in Northern England? (4) |
