| WHODUNNIT | Mystery crime novel (9) |
| ERGONOMIC | Turn negative into crime novel that's well-adapted (9) |
| DEADPLACE | The ?, 2005 crime novel by Stephen Booth |
| INQUEST | "Da Vinci's ___" (Canadian mystery/crime series) |
| RIVER | Mystery crime thriller starring Sean Penn, Mystic ___ (5) |
| SHERLOCK | British mystery crime drama series (8) |
| MARIOPUZO | U.S. author who wrote the crime novel The Godfather later adapted into a film trilogy (5,4) |
| GORKYPARK | 1981 crime novel by US author Martin Cruz Smith set in Cold War-era Moscow (5,4) |
| BEAUGESTE | Sweetheart gets upset about ending in crime novel (4,5) |
| PLASTICKY | “The gun [...] was a toy, as you could tell really by the ____ look of it” (Ruth Rendell crime novel) |
| SLAUGHTER | Karin ?, author of crime novels Pretty Girls, Triptych and Indelible (9) |
| GEORGETTE | ___ Heyer, writer of historical romances and crime novels (9) |
| DICKFRANCIS | British mystery crime writer who was once jockey to the Queen Mother (4,7) |
| GUYPEARCE | Who played the title role in the TV adaptation (from 2012) of Peter Temple's Jack Irish crime novels? (3,6) |
| THEGODFATHER | 1969 crime novel by Mario Puzo about a fictional Mafia family (3,9) |
| MCGEE | Crime-novel hero Travis |
| WHACKED | Murdered, in crime novel slang |
| GONEBABYGONE | Lehane crime novel about a missing girl |
| WHODUNIT | Crime novel, colloquially (8) |
| THATREMAINS | Patricia Cornwell crime novel, All ... (4,7) |
