| CULPRIT | Person who committed the crime (7) |
| PREP | Homework turns up the one who committed the crime (4) |
| PERP | Person who committed a crime, informally |
| MISHIMA | Pen name of the Japanese author who wrote Forbidden Colours and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy; a nationalist who committed seppuku in 1970 (7) |
| ORESTES | Son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology who committed matricide (7) |
| PINCHED | Brand journalist who committed arson (7) |
| BIGAMIST | Person who has committed the crime of marrying someone whilst already legally married (8) |
| EASTMAN | George ___, US photographic equipment pioneer who committed suicide in 1932 (7) |
| HANCOCK | Tony, English comedian who committed suicide in 1968 in Australia (7) |
| HIMMLER | Heinrich, German Nazi Gestapo leader who committed suicide in 1945 (7) |
| TRAITOR | In royal portrait, orb partially obscures one who committed treason |
| ALIBI | Story that proves you couldn't have committed the crime |
| AUTODIDACT | DIY learner in car committed the deed (10) |
| HELDUP | Stayed while one committed the robbery (4,2) |
| ASSAILANT | In a last trip round South Africa, he committed the attack (9) |
| TERRORISTS | "We will make no distinction between the ___ who committed these acts and those who harbour them" - US President George W Bush, 11 September 2001 (10) |
| FELON | One who committed a serious crime |
| NERO | Redhead who committed suicide after lamenting, "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| KAT | __ Moon, Walford woman who committed perjury at the trial of Janine Butcher (3) |
| BONNIEPARKER | Girlfriend of US criminal Clyde Barrow, who committed robberies with him in the early 1930s (6,6) |
