| THEMOUSETRAP | Murder mystery play featuring Detective Sergeant Trotter (3,9) |
| ROGERACKROYD | The ?, 1926 novel by Agatha Christie featuring detective Hercule Poirot (6,2,5,7) |
| SERGEANTTROTTER | Detective character in Agatha Christie's popular murder mystery play The Mousetrap (8,7) |
| MOUSETRAP | The ____ , murder mystery play by Agatha Christie that premiered in 1952 (9) |
| SHETLAND | Scottish crime drama featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez (8) |
| THELONGGOODBYE | 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler featuring detective Philip Marlowe |
| MYSTERY | 'The --', 1929 novel featuring detective Ellery Queen (7) |
| ROMANHAT | A'The --', 1929 novel featuring detective Ellery Queen (5,3) |
| SPILLANE | Mickey ___, author of crime novels featuring detective Mike Hammer |
| SILVERBLAZE | 1892 story by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring detective Sherlock Holmes (6,5) |
| EVERYMAN | Mystery play character always confused many |
| BENJAMINBRITTEN | ____'s Noyes Fludde is based on a Chester mystery play |
| WYES | Characters seen three times in a mystery play (4) |
| SPRYLY | Smartly, mystery play censors meaty components |
| ENEMY | Adversary of obscene mystery play (5) |
| MURDEROF | The ___, 1926 novel by Agatha Christie featuring detective Hercule Poirot (6,2,5,7) |
| CLEEVES | Ann ___ , English author who wrote the Shetland crime novels featuring Detective Jimmy Perez (7) |
| ALERT | 2015 novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, featuring Detective Michael Bennett (5) |
| MIAMIVICE | 1980s TV show featuring detectives Crockett and Tubbs |
| VESTRYMAN | Short Mystery plays in verse an official found in church |
