| SIMENON | Georges, Belgian author who created Inspector Maigret (7) |
| RENDELL | Surname of the author who created Inspector Wexford (7) |
| GEORGES | Author of detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (7,7) |
| GEORGESSIMENON | Belgian author who created fictional detective Maigret (7,7) |
| MAIGRET | French police detective created by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon (7) |
| NGAIO | And 20 New Zealand author who created Inspector Roderick Alleyn (5,5) |
| IANRANKIN | Scottish author who created Inspector Rebus (3,6) |
| IAN | _ Rankin, best-selling author who created Inspector Rebus (3) |
| COLINDEXTER | English crime writer who created Inspector Morse (5,6) |
| DEXTER | Colin ---, English crime writer who created Inspector Morse (6) |
| JEANRAY | Pseudonym under which Belgian author Raymundus Joannes de Kremer wrote the 1943 novel Malpertuis (4,3) |
| RETREAD | Maigret readership includes one brought out of retirement (7) |
| RAGTIME | Maigret playing Joplin's sort of music (7) |
| RANKIN | Crime novelist who created Inspector Rebus, Ian _ (6) |
| ONTHE | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| EIFFELTOWER | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| THEMAN | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| MAETERLINCK | Maurice, Belgian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 (11) |
| IANFLEMING | One article by Belgian author (3,7) |
| PEDIGREE | An autobiographical novel by Belgian author Georges Simenon (8) |
