| YOUNGOFFENDER | A person aged below 18 who has been convicted for a criminal offence (5,8) |
| FAGET | He's been convicted of espionage |
| STEPHENHAWKING | "A Brief History of Time" physicist (1/8/42-3/14/18) who declined a knighthood: 2 wds. |
| HAIG | Commander of the British Expeditionary Force from 1915-18, who pursued a controversial strategy of attrition (4) |
| DECRIMINALISE | Remove an action from the legal category or criminal offence (13) |
| MODUSOPERANDI | Way of working, particularly for a criminal (5,8) |
| TEENAGER | What do we call a person aged between thirteen and nineteen (8) |
| UNTIL | Human Rights declaration, 'Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent ... p |
| MONEYLAUNDERING | Washing banknotes, perhaps? It's a criminal offence (5-10) |
| STEALING | Police chief accepting regularly deleted emails is a criminal offence (8) |
| BATTERY | One may be charged with a criminal offence |
| BRIBERY | British brought in cheese by railway, a criminal offence |
| FORGERY | Uttering this is a criminal offence (7) |
| ALI | Boxer Muhammad who was convicted for refusing to be drafted in 1967 |
| BREAKIN | It's a job for a criminal to bring to heel those from a stable environment (5-2) |
| INFORMANT | He gives details to police in the main for man to be convicted |
| PIRACY | Anne Bonny and Mary Read were tried and convicted for this crime in Jamaica in 1720 (6) |
| PANAMA | Manuel Noriega, convicted for drug trafficking in 1992, was military leader of which country? (6) |
| SUICIDE | One who successfully commits this crime cannot be convicted (7) |
| VILLAIN | House with a new finish prepared for a criminal (7) |
