| ELBOW | Constable in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (5) |
| LUCIO | Character in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure forced into marriage to Kate Keepdown |
| OVERDONE | Mistress ___, bawd in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (8) |
| ANGELO | Character in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure |
| ISABELLA | Claudio's sister in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (8) |
| CLAUDIO | Brother of Isabella in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (7) |
| DOUBTS | "Our ___ are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt": Lucio, in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (6) |
| VIENNA | City in which Shakespeare's Measure For Measure is set (6) |
| SPIKE | First name shared by Mr Dixon, the holiday camp comic in Hi-de-Hi!, and Mr Tanner, the detective constable in No Offence (5) |
| SCION | Junior had a special constable, in short, working with one inside (5) |
| ESSEX | Lord high constable in "Ivanhoe" |
| TASTE | Last of Constables in gallery's sample (5) |
| DOGBERRY | A constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (8) |
| VERGES | Petty constable in Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing (6) |
| ARTIST | Constable in England or sergeant, we hear, in the US (6) |
| SCAVENGE | One in feud perhaps runs off after special constable in search |
| DULL | Constable in the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (4) |
| NEWSCASTER | TV presenter spotting special constable in modern plant |
| OFFICER | Constable in charge interrupting volunteer (7) |
| TATE | Where to see a Constable in London |
