| LIDDY | G Gordon -, former US soldier and FBI agent jailed for his role in the Watergate scandal |
| DUNN | Murdering Holby nurse, jailed for his crimes (7,4) |
| CAMERON | Murdering Holby nurse, jailed for his crimes (7,4) |
| NIXON | US president involved in the Watergate scandal |
| SOURCE | Deep Throat, e.g., in the Watergate scandal |
| AUDIE | Decorated US soldier and actor who played the title role in 1952 Western film The Cimarron Kid (5,6) |
| MURPHY | Decorated US soldier and actor who played the title role in 1952 Western film The Cimarron Kid (5,6) |
| AUDIEMURPHY | Decorated US soldier and actor who played the title role in 1952 Western film The Cimarron Kid |
| TAPES | Nixon's undoing in the Watergate scandal |
| WHITEHOUSETAPES | Evidence in the Watergate scandal |
| DARCY | Gordon -, former Ireland and Leinster Rugby centre who represented the British & Irish Lions once in 2005 |
| INFUSED | Brewed at home and FBI agent catches us (7) |
| BERNSTEIN | He and fellow investigative journalist Woodward played a main role in exposing the Watergate scandal (9) |
| CHARLESMANSON | US cult leader who was jailed for life in 1971, and died in 2017 |
| STRACHAN | Gordon, former Scotland manager who played for Aberdeen, Manchester United and Leeds United (8) |
| DIFFERED | Disagreed with detective and FBI agent imprisoning upstanding whistle-blower |
| UNFED | Middle of June and FBI agent is hungry (5) |
| PRESIDENTSMEN | All the ___ 1976 political thriller film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford which is about the Watergate scandal: 2 wds. |
| JUSTINTHEROUX | The Leftovers actor who plays attorney G. Gordon Liddy in White House Plumbers: 2 wds. |
| WOODWARD | Bob _, journalist whose investigation of the Watergate scandal with a fellow Washington Post reporter won the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 (8) |
