| THURSBY | Floyd ---, character who is murdered early on in The Maltese Falcon (7) |
| OMAR | "The Wire" character Little who is murdered in the antepenultimate episode of the series |
| BANQUO | Character in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, who is murdered and later appears as a ghost (6) |
| IMAGINE | PICTURE A Name the song by him that was recorded, sung line by line, by a host of stars, intended as a morale boost early on in the pandemic? (7) |
| DANIELS | Bebe who co-starred in "The Maltese Falcon," 1931 |
| ORIGAMI | Producing figures from paper early on in endless source (7) |
| CHUKKAS | Periods of play in a game on horseback depicted by Rudyard Kipling in The Maltese Cat (7) |
| OBELISK | Bloke is murdered with needle (7) |
| CHAPTERONE | The pa bumped into the old hag early on in the book (7,3) |
| PROP | The Maltese Falcon in "The Maltese Falcon," e.g. |
| OPENER | It's key for one of those dealing with deliveries early on in the field (6) |
| HYDROPLANE | Early on in the PhD, made one for flying through water? (10) |
| NUMBER | Was ether found early on in the Old Testament (6) |
| MARYASTOR | "A Life on Film" author who had a major role in "The Maltese Falcon" |
| ACERTAINJUSTICE | P. D. James's 1997 novel in which Venetia Aldridge is murdered? (1,7,7) |
| COWAN | Jerome who played Miles Archer, Sam's ill-fated partner, in "The Maltese Falcon" |
| PETERLORRE | Actor who starred alongside Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon |
| ELISHA | Cook who played Wilmer in "The Maltese Falcon" |
| LORRE | Peter who played Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" |
| ASTOR | Bogart told her "You're good...you're very good" in "The Maltese Falcon" |
