| REGINALDHILL | Author of detective stories featuring Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe |
| CRIMEWRITER | Author of detective stories |
| THESECRETOF | 6 and 4 1925 novel by Agatha Christie featuring Superintendent Battle (3,6,2,8) |
| NAYSAYERS | People against any work by a writer of detective stories (3-6) |
| SIMENON | Writer of detective stories puts people in heaven (7) |
| AGATHA | Writer of detective stories, _ Christie (6) |
| LETTER | Writer of detective stories? Right! (6) |
| DEXTER | Writer of detective stories? Right! (6) |
| CRIMEDOESNTPAY | A maxim that isn't true for the successful writer of detective stories? |
| GAINSAYER | One denies advantage writer of detective stories detailed (9) |
| POE | Early writer of detective stories |
| SNUFF | A Pinch Of ---, the fifth of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels by Reginald Hill (5) |
| ERLESTANLEYGARDNER | American lawyer and author best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories (4,7,7) |
| BUCHANAN | Colin -, actor who played DI Peter Pascoe in BBC TV series Dalziel and Pascoe |
| CHESTERTON | Author of a series of stories featuring his character Father Brown including The Blue Cross, The Purple Wig, The Green Man and The Red Moon of Meru (10) |
| ARTHUR | Forename of the author of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| WODEHOUSE | Author of a canon of comic novels and stories featuring bachelor Bertram "Bertie" Wilberforce Wooster and his omniscient gentleman's gentleman, Reginald Jeeves (9) |
| REGINALD | ____ Hill, English crime writer who created detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe (8) |
| NGAIO | First name of the author of detective novels including Surfeit of Lampreys and Clutch of Constables (5) |
| CROMPTON | Richmal ?, author of stories featuring William Brown and Violet Elizabeth Bott (8) |
