| FATHERBROWN | G.K. Chesterton's detective character (6,5) |
| BROWN | Chesterton's detective character, Father ... |
| CROQUET | Described in G. K. Chesterton's essay The Perfect Game, a lawn game played with mallets and hoops (7) |
| FATHER | ___ Brown, GK Chesterton's detective (6) |
| DONNISHNESS | Pedantry of Chesterton's remote and ineffectual attacker? |
| INNOCENCEOF | The ?, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton |
| NOTTINGHILL | The -, 1904 novel by G K Chesterton - w 1ac (8,2,7,4) |
| SAINT | Simon Templar, the Leslie Charteris detective character made popular on TV by Roger Moore, is also k |
| FROST | Jack -; detective character portrayed by David Jason (5) |
| SIMENON | Belgian creator of the classic detective character, Commissaire Maigret |
| ACE | ___ Ventura Jim Carrey's memorable detective character |
| ACEVENTURA | Jim Carrey's 'Pet Detective' character: 2 wds. |
| COLUMBO | Peter Falk's detective character |
| HERCULE | Agatha Christie's detective character, ___ Poirot |
| RANKIN | Novelist who named his detective character after the rebus puzzle |
| VERA | Eponymous Brenda Blethyn detective character (4) |
| JACK | - Irish, Australian detective character in the Peter Temple novels, played on TV by Guy Pearce (4) |
| SERGEANTTROTTER | Detective character in Agatha Christie's popular murder mystery play The Mousetrap (8,7) |
| REBUS | Puzzle that uses pictographs; or, Ian Rankin's detective character (5) |
| CHANDLER | Raymond -; novelist whose detective character Philip Marlowe first appeared in The Big Sleep (8) |
