| BEATTHERAP | Escape punishment or be acquitted for a crime (4,3,3) |
| GETAWAYWITHMURDER | Do as one pleases yet escape punishment or censure (3,4,4,6) |
| ROD | Whether an angler's fishing-pole, a cane for a stroll or a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer of blue-eyed soul, it is a word or name synonymous with a stick for punishment or control (3) |
| SWINGFORIT | Be hanged for a crime (5,3,2) |
| LAM | Headlong flight usually to escape punishment for a crime |
| GETOFF | To escape punishment; be acquitted (3,3) |
| PUNISHMENT | Penalty for a crime (10) |
| GETOFFLIGHTLY | Be acquitted or escape with little or no punishment (3,3,7) |
| SCOURGE | Whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture. (7) |
| JANKERS | (Military) Punishment or detention for committing an offence (7) |
| WHATFOR | A punishment or reprimand (4-3) |
| SONYA | Woman in "Crime and Punishment" or "War and Peace" |
| TORTURE | Inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or coercion (7) |
| ABSOLVED | Sailor determined to be acquitted (8) |
| CLEARED | Falsely declare to be acquitted (7) |
| GEOFF | Chap to be acquitted with the passing of time |
| THENAUGHTY | Afterwards errancy's corrected with tough punishment ... or maybe not (3,7,6) |
| PENAL | Concerning punishment or its infliction |
| ASKFORIT | To invite punishment or other bad consequence (3,3,2) |
| CONFINE | Study monetary punishment or keep one within bounds (7) |
