| MYSTERY | A secret doctrine; a trade guild or craft; a tale of suspense dealing with a puzzling crime; or, an enigmatic person or phenomenon (7) |
| LIVERY | Historical provision of food or clothing for servants; distinctive garb of a member of a medieval trade guild or later City Company; or, the feeding and stabling of horses for pay (6) |
| SWORDOFDAMOCLES | Weapon used in a tale of suspense? (5,2,8) |
| COMPOSER | Sedative combinations begin with a puzzling question |
| KABBALA | Malaysian capital detaining group linked to a secret doctrine (7) |
| METAMORPHISM | Encountered a powerful drug doctrine. A transforming thing (12) |
| COTTAGEINDUSTRY | Doctrine a guy's formulated about dry business conducted at home (7,8) |
| THRILLER | Not so well after first parts of this horrifically riveting tale of suspense (8) |
| UNION | Word, derived from the Latin for "one", for the state of being allied; the act of marriage or wedlock; a brotherhood or guild; or, agreement, concord or harmony in general (5) |
| ACCESSORY | A person who incites someone to commit a crime or assists the perpetrator of a crime (9) |
| DETECTIVIST | Word for a writer of capers, hard-boiled thrillers, murder mysteries or other whodunnitry novels based on gumshoes or sleuths investigating and solving puzzling crimes (11) |
| SEWING | Depicted in The House of Eliott, the general name for a skill, art or craft characteristic of tailoring, dressmaking, embroidery or needlepoint (6) |
| BEAD | One of a series of trinkets used in the art or craft of stringing (4) |
| APPLIQUE | Textile art or craft in which fabric pieces are stitched onto a ground cloth of contrasting colour to create a pattern (8) |
| TREEN | Bowls, boxes, goblets, spoons and other household articles of carved/turned wood; or, the art or craft of making said woodenwares (5) |
| DEATHBED | ____ confession, one made at the very end of life, usually relating to a crime or secret (8) |
| TONG | Chinese guild or secret society |
| TENDERFOOT | Craft a bit of poetry for a beginner (10) |
| LIVERYCOMPANY | Organisation descended from a city trade guild |
| HAWKEYE | Fictional superhero character who first appeared in Tales of Suspense published by Marvel Comics in |
