| DURANCE | Imprisonment in old city interrupting trip |
| RISINGSUN | Daily event one celebrates, interrupting trip |
| CURATOR | Head of museum in ancient city interrupting foreign actor (7) |
| EQUITABLE | Fair in centre of city interrupting calm (9) |
| DREADLOCKS | Fear imprisonment in thatch? (10) |
| ENDURANCE | Surviving nurse's imprisonment in the past (9) |
| DEBTOR | One subject to imprisonment, in Dickens's day |
| ZENDA | Place of imprisonment in book and film |
| PILFER | Steal, getting possible life imprisonment in Puerto Rico (6) |
| NORMANSTANLEYFLETCHER | A "habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner" (TV title sequence) |
| OSCAR | ___ Wilde the Irish playwright who wrote De Profundis during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol |
| JAMES | ___ Nightingale, managed to survive The Undertaker's imprisonment in Hollyoaks (5) |
| PAPILLON | Novel by Henri Charriere about his imprisonment in a French penal colony (8) |
| DEPROFUNDIS | Title of a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol (2,9) |
| THEENORMOUSROOM | 1922 autobiographical novel by e e cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I |
| MANDELA | Future head of state who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 (7) |
| ROSE | Wartime broadcaster Tokyo ... was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in October, 1949 |
| LURK | Lie in wait in old city, hiding in deserted Left Bank |
| USAGER | Wise man in old city, an old religious disputant (6) |
| TRUANTRY | Hear about worker in old city creating offence in schools |
