| SERENGETI | Criminal gets in before getting nabbed in the park (9) |
| CAUGHTREDHANDED | Court read and did sound like being nabbed in the act (6,3-6) |
| APERCU | Brief comment from a copper for each getting nabbed (6) |
| ARRESTEE | One getting nabbed? |
| SEESREASON | Diocese, with rector nabbed in time, acts appropriately in the end (4,6) |
| SUPERETTE | Drink abstainer gets in before closure of the store (9) |
| ASYNDETON | Reduction in sentence? Yes, and no criminal gets time inside |
| LARCENIST | Criminal gets table, having to use crane (9) |
| FENCEPOST | Criminal gets mail from a supporter (5,4) |
| VILLAIN | Criminal gets in at the back of the house |
| SKYPES | Scam starts when pesky criminal gets in touch over the internet (6) |
| COURTSHIP | Criminal is hurt, nabbed by police officer in pursuit (9) |
| EGESTING | Sweating, perhaps, as criminal gets in |
| PLUTOCRAT | Rich person in airport town nearly nabbed by copper, despicable type |
| ETHEL | She gets in before the latecomers |
| SNAPPEDUP | Nabbed, as all the tickets |
| SPEEDTRAP | Pad, pre-set, tripped where boy racer nabbed? |
| BALDEAGLE | Dog nabbed dodgy lad and American bird (4,5) |
| POLARISED | Holding contradictory views, emerge nabbed by policeman after a change of heart |
| ENCORE | One bombardier gets in before another (6) |
