| MARPLE | Fictional detective, Miss _ (6) |
| AGATHA | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
| CHRISTIE | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
| MEAD | St Mary -; home of Agatha Christi's fictional detective Miss Jane Marple (4) |
| POIROT | Fictional detective whose sometime secretary is Miss Lemon (6) |
| HAMMER | Fictional detective in horror film (6) |
| SPADES | Fictional detective Sam, seen originally in a suit (6) |
| HOLMES | Sherlock ___; fictional detective (6) |
| PRIEST | Charlie --, Stuart Pawson's fictional detective (6) |
| MOROSE | Sour-tempered fictional detective arresting rotund character (6) |
| MORSEL | Fictional detective left with a small piece (6) |
| CHANCE | An opportunity to find fictional detective at church (6) |
| SEXTON | ___ Blake, fictional detective who first appeared in 1893 (6) |
| WIMSEY | Lord Peter ..., fictional detective created by Dorothy L Sayers (6) |
| WATSON | Friend and assistant of the fictional detective who lives at 221B Baker Street, London (6) |
| THORNE | Tom, fictional detective inspector created by English writer Mark Billingham (6) |
| RAISIN | Agatha ---, fictional detective; protagonist of a series of novels by M. C. Beaton (6) |
| CHANCY | Risky for fictional detective to get caught with yen (6) |
| ALLEYN | Roderick, fictional detective played on screen by Patrick Malahide (6) |
| ELLERY | ____ Queen, fictional detective and mystery writer in New York City (6) |
