| PENPUSHERS | At prison, the drug dealers became writers (3,7) |
| APOTHECARIES | A criminal cop, the sign for the drug dealers (12) |
| ASPIRINS | A number of transgressions include a fair amount of piracy promoted by the drug dealers? (8) |
| CONCOCTION | Criminal at firm is taken to court and is charged with a mixture that came from the drug dealer (10) |
| INGOODNICK | Satisfactory at prison that's at an acceptable standard (2,4,4) |
| PENETRATED | At prison was treated badly, but got through it (10) |
| PHARMACIST | Drug dealer's growing business support, you might say |
| DISPENSE | The job of the drug dealer to give out (8) |
| PECAN | The accountant's in prison, the nut! (5) |
| DUNGEON | Prison the end product, given a lot of time (7) |
| QUOD | Prison - the Q in QED (4) |
| NEPAL | Land in US city prison the wrong way |
| TOBYJUG | Time to send boy to prison, the mug (4,3) |
| SINGSING | US prison, the Ossining Correctional Facility (4,4) |
| REMAND | Send back to prison the chap overdrawn, apparently (6) |
| GITMO | Prison the current prez has failed to close |
| OLDNICK | Is he past prison, the devil? (3,4) |
| PENDANT | Piece of jewellery that spelled prison: the man got time (7) |
| DRAW | Depict section of a prison the wrong way (4) |
| CANE | Prison's the ultimate in severe punishment |