| DISCHARGED | Duke is accused of offence and released |
| SQUARED | Took an attitude of offence and defence, as a boxer (7) |
| CHARGED | Accused of offence (7) |
| BATON | Proverbially blind character accused of offence in police assault (5,6) |
| CHARGE | Proverbially blind character accused of offence in police assault (5,6) |
| AUMERLE | In 4.1, this character is accused of being involved in "noble Gloucester's death, Who wrought it with the King, and who performed The bloody office of his timeless end." Who is it? |
| ESPIONAGE | What Trump is accused of violating (1 of 2) (9) |
| ACT | What Trump is accused of violating (2 of 2) (3) |
| BARDOLPH | Which character is accused of stealing and hung by the King's order? |
| DOCK | One in it is accused of being a weed (4) |
| LOGAN | ___ Act, law that Michael Flynn is accused of breaking |
| PLAGIARISM | TV hit Squid Game is accused of this 'copying' misdeed (10) |
| THEFT | What a kleptomaniac is accused of |
| MARA | Fijian president, against whom Speight is accused of intending "to levy war" |
| THEBURGESSBOYS | 2013 Elizabeth Strout novel about two lawyer brothers whose nephew is accused of a hate crime: 3 wds. |
| BLASPHEMY | Sin of which Jesus is accused in Matthew chapter 9 |
| ARRAIGNED | A king ruled I hear and is accused (9) |
| GETONONESHIGHHORSE | Take offence and assume a position of moral superiority (3,2,4,4,5) |
| INSIDERTRADING | City offence and home team having a right exchange? (7,7) |
| SLEEPSIN | Old copper returns to stop second offence and ignores alarm? |
