| ACIDIFIED | A group of detectives and one US agent snared one, being sharper (9) |
| PICKAT | Find fault with detective and one capable of catching vermin over weekend (4,2) |
| COINCIDENCE | Chance event in which criminal traps one lot of detectives and headless coppers |
| PEDIGREE | Family secure involvement of detective and free missing female (8) |
| RUTHRENDELL | British author of detective and thriller novels, some under the pseudonym Barbara Vine (4,7) |
| JUDGMENTS | Case-law derives from a lot of combat with detectives and models (9) |
| AMINOACID | Main problem ? only a group of detectives reach compound (5,4) |
| BORICACID | Bishop Rico sent a group of detectives an antiseptic (5,4) |
| THEBESTOF | Ironic wish for food - eating shrub's rubbish, concealing go-slow among detectives and pupil (3,4,2, |
| DICTATION | Detective and prisoner accepting rubbish given by one delivering sentences? (9) |
| ROUNDEYED | Detective and director after set of drinks looking surprised? (5,4) |
| LISASWAIN | Weatherfield detective and single mother to whom Carla Connor has grown fond of (4,5) |
| EYESHADOW | Slap detective and cryptically murder playwright (9) |
| ACIDRAIN | A group of detectives managed to include one with precipitation being polluted (4,4) |
| HBODRAMAS | "True Detective" and "The Wire," for two |
| ANTACID | A group of detectives following worker's solution for a complaint (7) |
| KASTNER | German author of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap (5,7) |
| ERICH | German author of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap (5,7) |
| ACRID | A group of detectives have right to be caustic (5) |
| ACIDIC | Sarcastic about a group of detectives in charge (6) |
