| SCUM | Criminal case which is straightforward and conclusive (4,3,4) |
| OPENAND | Criminal case which is straightforward and conclusive (4,3,4) |
| ACIDTEST | A rigorous and conclusive examination to establish worth or value (4,4) |
| LITMUSTEST | Effective and conclusive way to ascertain acidity (6,4) |
| ASEASYASABC | Like the alphabet it is straightforward (2,4,2,3) |
| OPENANDSHUT | Easily solved, as a criminal case |
| PROSECUTION | Side bringing criminal case (11) |
| HIGHPROFILE | Likely to attract attention, as a criminal case |
| ACCUSATIVE | Case which needs objective prosecuting (10) |
| LIS | A dispute, or the legal case which follows |
| DATIVE | Latin case which marks the indirect object of a verb (6) |
| OCHREAE | Cases which tie up flying ace and hero (7) |
| MATTEROFFACT | Straightforward and unemotional (6-2-4) |
| HONEST | Straightforward and trustworthy, to hens maybe (6) |
| HEMINGWAYESQUE | Straightforward and unadorned, as literary prose |
| BLUNT | Straightforward and then some |
| PLAIN | It's straightforward and on the level (5) |
| CANDID | Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness. (6) |
| NONONSENSE | After English and French denials, perhaps hearing is straightforward (2-8) |
| NEGLIGENCE | A decomposed snail in a ginger beer bottle in 1928 led to the case which laid the foundation of laws about ____ |
