| VIRNA | Actress ___ Lisi of "How to Murder |
| LISI | Actress Lisi of "How to Murder Your Wife" (1965) |
| BENDE | Fashion designer, _ _ Lisi (3,2) |
| YOURWIFE | 1965 film comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi (4,4) |
| ONAQUEEN | 1966 adventure film starring Frank Sinatra and Virna Lisi (7,2,1,5) |
| ASSAULT | 1966 adventure film starring Frank Sinatra and Virna Lisi (7,2,1,5) |
| HOWTOMURDER | and 13dn, 1965 film comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi (3,2,6,4,4) |
| GHOUL | "The ___ Next Door" (second book in Lisi Harrison's "Monster High" series) |
| LORDSCROOP | The traitorous Henry of Masham, ringleader of the Southampton plot to murder King Henry V (4,6) |
| CONTRA | Out of court, arrangement to murder guerrilla |
| LABEL | Put a name to murder victim after end of trial |
| JAMES | P D ___, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder (5) |
| JEREMYTHORPE | Liberal Party leader 1967-76 later cleared of conspiracy to murder (6,6) |
| BUMP | It's into to come across and it's off to murder (4) |
| ELECTRA | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who persuaded her brother Orestes to murder their mother and her lover Aegisthus (7) |
| HOLLY | Author of the 2019 novel A Good Girl's Guide To Murder, _ Jackson (5) |
| PDJAMES | 'A Mind to Murder' author |
| SIN | Confess to murder (3) |
| POLISHOFF | A Pole turned to murder! (6,3) |
| TAKEFORARIDE | Abduct to murder - cheat (4,3,1,4) |
