| INCARCERATED | In trouble, criminal leader gets arrested, judged and imprisoned |
| NAILED | Young working class Scot invites trouble, gets arrested (6) |
| STUNTED | Following expolit, journalist gets arrested (7) |
| CAPTORINHAND | Kidnapper who gets arrested? |
| WALLEDUP | Breaking law, gets taken before the beak and imprisoned |
| HISS | Alger, American state department official tried and imprisoned for perjury in 1950 (4) |
| THETRIAL | Joseph K's existence was judged and found wanting in this Franz Kafka novel published posthumously in 1925 (3,5) |
| RICHARDII | Son of the Black Prince who reigned as Plantagenet king of England before being usurped by Henry Bolingbroke and imprisoned in Pontefract Castle (7,1,1) |
| CAGE | Criminal leader given time in prison |
| NOCONTEST | Plea by criminal leader in midday trial (2,7) |
| SYNODS | Raised crafty type hiding criminal leader? Yes, in church gatherings! (6) |
| ESPARTOS | Grasses to spare criminal - leader in Sun (8) |
| DANCE | Criminal leader collared in Scandinavian caper (5) |
| CONCEDEDEFEAT | Give up criminal leader - one defected, perhaps, grabbing American leader |
| CONFINED | Cheat penalized financially and imprisoned (8) |
| CAGED | Caught the old and imprisoned them (5) |
| FATHOMED | Understood and imprisoned myself at home dutifully (8) |
| EXONERATED | Old individual judged and given a pardon |
| UNHEARD | International alliance judged and ignored (7) |
| REDEEMED | Once more judged and freed from blame (8) |
