| FALSEARREST | It's wrong to hold onto a victim of mistaken identity (5,6) |
| KEEPASECRET | Not tell others how to hold onto a piece of confidential information (4,1,6) |
| LIEN | Right to hold onto a property until the debt is fully discharged |
| ERRORS | Shakespeare work with the two sets of twin brothers and lots of mistaken identity, The Comedy Of ... |
| CASE | "It was a ___ of mistaken identity" |
| AMNESIA | A case of mistaken identity? |
| HOMINID | Primate who beheaded one in case of mistaken identity (7) |
| ACASE | It's ___ of mistaken identity: 2 wds. |
| MIXUP | Case of mistaken identity, say |
| WITLESSWITNESS | Cause of mistaken identity? |
| ECOTERRORISM | Beasts as a pretext for violence etc? I'm so wrong to hold fallacy (12) |
| KEEPGUARD | Hold onto a nightwatchman, in order to make the rounds (4,5) |
| KEEPADROP | Hold onto a pendant, leaving a last tot in the bottle (4,1,4) |
| IDENTITY | It's a case of mistaken ___ (We got the wrong guy) |
| ERRATA | Make a mistake at a lot of mistaken words (6) |
| TORMENT | In plague, wrong to hold hands (7) |
| YIDDISH | Shy? Did wrong to hold one’s tongue |
| TIMPANI | Ain't wrong to hold the little devil, but they take some beating (7) |
| OWNED | Admitted having done wrong to hold wife (5) |
| HUGGERMUGGER | Hold onto a criminal picked up secretly |