| REUS | In law, a wrongful deed forming a component of a crime, as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (4) |
| ACTUS | In law, a wrongful deed forming a component of a crime, as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (5) |
| TORT | In law, a wrongful act (4) |
| EYEWITNESS | One possibly viewing a crime as a mark of King Edward, joker and crime-fighter? (3,7) |
| KIDNAPPED | Committed a crime as the child slept (9) |
| AUNTS | The perpetrators in "Arsenic and Old Lace" |
| OWNGOAL | Act harming the perpetrator's interests |
| ACCESSORY | In law, a person who incites someone to commit a crime or assists the perpetrator (9) |
| MEMORANDUM | A note to assist recall; or, in law, a summary of the terms of a contract or transaction (10) |
| ESTOPPEL | In law, a rule of evidence whereby a person is precluded from denying the truth of a statement of facts he has previously asserted |
| PLAINT | In Law, a statement in writing made to a court asking for redress of a grievance (6) |
| TESTIMONY | In law, a form of evidence obtained from a witness who makes a solemn statement or declaration of fact |
| REBUTTAL | In law. a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiffs surrejoinder (8) |
| HABEASCORPUS | In law, a writ ordering a person to be brought before a court or judge |
| ALIBI | In law, a defence by an accused person that he or she was elsewhere at the time a crime was committed (5) |
| RACISM | A basis for hate crime, as most of crime is sorted |
| HOWCATCHEM | Mystery in which, unlike in a whodunnit, the perpetrator is revealed at the beginning |
| AFFRAY | In law, a fight or disturbance between two or more people in a public place (6) |
| PRECEDENT | In law, a judicial decision that serves as an authority for deciding a later case (9) |
| AGNATE | In law, a person related to another by descent from the same male ancestor (6) |
