| FLUTEDTHELAW | Avoid legal consequences, as a Pied Piper might |
| HAMELIN | Town featured in the Robert Browning poem, based on a pied piper (7) |
| AFTERMATH | Consequences as a result of American arithmetic (9) |
| YELP | Yap, like Emmerdale's Piper might make (4) |
| NULL | "___ and void' (of no legal consequence) (4) |
| JAILTIME | Certain legal consequence |
| ABSCONDED | Ran away to avoid legal process |
| ABSCOND | Depart to avoid legal action |
| PIERRE | In France, Peter accepts date for a pied-a-terre (6) |
| ACCENTMARK | Feature of a pied-a-terre |
| BIJOU | Small and elegant, like a pied-a-terre? (5) |
| ENSUE | It will follow as a consequence, as half of Eden prosecute (5) |
| METATARSUS | Had rendezvous with adult north of town of St Paul ___ a pied-a-terre? (10) |
| SOUNDEFFECTS | Blow the consequences, as they're responsible for creating noise and making a scene (5,7) |
| WAGTAIL | Feathered friend that has a pied variety (7) |
| CAPITALOFFENSE | Lawbreaking with serious consequences, as committed in the theme answers |
| ENDS | Consequences as support abandons bodies of tradition |
| BUTTERFLYEFFECT | Concept that small changes can have large consequences, as in theoretical time travel |
| FACESTHEMUSIC | Is willing to take the consequences, as the conductor does (5,3,5) |
| HELLTOPAY | Serious consequences as that fellow will always secure first place (4,2,3) |
