| TUPPENCE | Little change previously seen in Agatha Christie detective (8) |
| VICARAGE | Word for the clergy house or parsonage where a murder takes place in Agatha Christie's debut Miss Marple novel first published by the Collins Crime Club in 1930 (8) |
| POIROT | Belgian detective featured in Agatha Christie novels |
| THEORIENT | Murder on ___ Express Agatha Christie's detective novel published in 1934 which was adapted into a film starring Kenneth Branagh in 2017: 2 wds. |
| ORIENTEXPRESS | Train in an Agatha Christie detective novel |
| MISSMARPLE | Agatha Christie's detective resident in St Mary Mead (4,6) |
| SERGEANTTROTTER | Detective character in Agatha Christie's popular murder mystery play The Mousetrap (8,7) |
| NORM | Pattern in Agatha Christie novel |
| PONCEAU | Red previously seen in unfinished Gauguin, perhaps |
| JAPP | Inspector in Agatha Christie novels |
| CHAPEL | The Spanish fellow previously seen in a place of worship (6) |
| ONCE | Previously seen in convention centre |
| JANEMARPLE | Agatha Christie detective who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead (2 wds.) |
| HERCULE | Agatha Christie detective "___ Poirot" (7) |
| HERCULEPOIROT | Agatha Christie detective (7,6) |
| MISS | _ Marple, Agatha Christie detective (4) |
| MARPLE | Agatha Christie's detective played by Geraldine McEwen, Miss ... (6) |
| ARSENIC | In Agatha Christie's After The Funeral, in what has a piece of wedding cake been soaked? (7) |
| CLARKE | Sir Carmichael ___, the C of murder victims in in Agatha Christie's novel The ABC Murders |
| ANDOVER | In Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, the first murder is in this Hampshire town (7) |
