| OVERCROP | Misuse land? Perhaps Chief Constable gets run in! |
| COP | Perhaps Chief Wiggum in The Simpsons is viewed in telescope (3) |
| INSURGENT | Rebelling against authority, gets run in perhaps |
| BLADDERWORT | Baronet gets run in, meeting controversy over floating plant |
| ACCURSED | Weirdly unlucky defendant gets run in (8) |
| DROWSES | Searches for water, gets run in, drops off (7) |
| DURHAM | For which constabulary was Jo Farrell Chief Constable before becoming the first female Chief Constable for Police Scotland. (6) |
| DOGBERRY | Chief constable in Much Ado about Nothing (8) |
| SCOUNDREL | In good nick, chief constable detained relative of villain (9) |
| RALPH | Chief Constable Ziegler in Ludwig (5,6) |
| INESON | Chief Constable Ziegler in Ludwig (5,6) |
| AMBROSIA | A doctor gets run out to South Africa, taking in fabulous food (8) |
| HERONRY | Writer James gets run over in colony of birds |
| STARTURN | Opener gets run out in captivating draw (4,4) |
| DITSY | In la-la land, perhaps |
| HAHAHA | Response to comedian with hectares of land perhaps (2,2,2) |
| CASINO | Business on Native American land, perhaps |
| HEDGE | Avoid committing oneself about agricultural land, perhaps |
| HOOK | Spit of land perhaps man's right to sacrifice for hotel |
| ENCROACH | Come into somebody else's land, perhaps |
