| RACISM | A basis for hate crime, as most of crime is sorted |
| RANCOUR | Go with guts, having no time for hate (7) |
| TOBLAME | Responsible for hate mob doting (2,5) |
| EMMETT | ___ Till, namesake of a landmark hate-crime law of 2022 |
| BALSAM | A liquid resin that is used as a basis for some fragrances (6) |
| PAIROF | Watching assistant as most of Copperfield act's fantastic (4,2,10) |
| SALAMI | Get a sausage as mail is sorted (6) |
| CARPET | Where to stand as a basis for one's rebuke? (6) |
| SATIRE | It ridicules folly as rite is sorted out (6) |
| REPAYS | Settles loan as prey is sorted out (6) |
| BAHASA | Aha! Malay a basis for my domain tongue (6,8) |
| UNPAID | A basis for volunteer work, money no object (6) |
| REUS | In law, a wrongful deed forming a component of a crime, as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (4) |
| ACTUS | In law, a wrongful deed forming a component of a crime, as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (5) |
| EYEWITNESS | One possibly viewing a crime as a mark of King Edward, joker and crime-fighter? (3,7) |
| INSIDEJOB | Perfidious crime, as air conditioning is for Jacob? (6,3) |
| THREATEN | Blackmail, as most of the resistance is demolished (8) |
| SINISTER | Threatening, as most of wine is rejected (8) |
| ALLHANDSONDECK | Alert for everyone, as most of 24 conked out |
| THEBURGESSBOYS | 2013 Elizabeth Strout novel about two lawyer brothers whose nephew is accused of a hate crime: 3 wds. |
