| RORT | Incident involving suspect behaviour |
| SERMONISER | Preacher's small sin involving suspect monies (10) |
| CLUE | Game involving suspects, weapons, and rooms |
| SOMEONE | True-crime series exploring homicide cases involving suspects close to the victims, - You Thought You Knew (7) |
| GOINGSON | Suspect behaviour of absconding child (6-2) |
| TRENT | ___ Affair (1860s incident involving two captured Confederate commissioners) |
| MORTARMYSTERY | Incident involving a missing lab vessel? |
| KNIFING | Violent incident involving a sharp weapon (7) |
| EVENT | Incident involving priest in film |
| MISADVENTURE | Unfortunate incident involving nursemaid and vet (12) |
| EPISODE | Interesting incident involving Poe dies out (7) |
| ESCAPADE | An incident involving excitement, daring or adventure (8) |
| DRAMA | Incident involving stud ram, at heart (5) |
| EVIDENT | Incident involving one Democrat, plain (7) |
| MONKEYBUSINESS | Suspect behaviour seen riding basic transport home surrounded by chaos (6,8) |
| XYZ | ___ Affair (1797-8 incident involving the U.S. and France) |
| LOE | All Black prop labelled thug after 1992 Ballymore Test incident involving Queensland winger Paul Carozza (3) |
| MADASAHATTER | Crazy incident involving associate turning blue on a drug (3,2,1,6) |
| EVENTS | Incidents involving eleven tsars (6) |
| UFOS | New Mexico's Roswell is famous for an incident in 1947 involving these 'flying saucers' (1,1,2) |