| LIZZIE | American tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother, _ Borden (6) |
| AMANDA | Woman acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher (6,4) |
| TREETOPS | Kenyan hotel where Princess Elizabeth was staying in 1952 when she learned of the death of her father (8) |
| RAINE | ___ Spencer, who was the daughter of Barbara Cartland and stepmother to Princess Diana (5) |
| ROBERT | _____ Borden (Prime Minister 1911 to 1920) |
| OJSIMPSON | Former American footballer acquitted of the murder of his wife in 1995 (1,1,7) |
| THOMAS | Brandon ___, author of the 1892 comic play Charley's Aunt |
| CUTNOICE | Axe murder cases never fail to make an impression |
| CHARLESPOOTER | Titular subject of the 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (7,6) |
| CHRISSIE | She covered up the details of her father's shooting in Emmerdale (8,5) |
| WILDE | Author of the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar _ (5) |
| CLEARED | Brought in and acquitted (7) |
| DISCHARGED | Diana's accused and acquitted (10) |
| BERNIE | The Six didn't want her to speak up about the murder of her brother Keanu in EastEnders (6) |
| STUART | Family name of Mary, Queen of Scots whose husband Lord Darnley was implicated in the murder of her private secretary David Rizzio (6) |
| SIENNA | She ran over her father and framed Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks (6,5) |
| PELOSI | Her father and brother were mayors of Baltimore |
| YELLOW | 'The ---', 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6,4-5) |
| LETOFF | Acquitted of having caused an explosion |
| PIRACY | Anne Bonny and Mary Read were tried and convicted for this crime in Jamaica in 1720 (6) |
