| TRIPP | Prosecutors have dismissed charges against her |
| MISBAH | ___ Maalik, Chester woman who hopes to press charges against her rapist ex, Ali Shahzad (6) |
| FRANKIE | Chester lass who nearly dropped the charges against her abusive twin brother JJ (7) |
| GOUT | Painful disease it's good to have dismissed (4) |
| JOHNNIEHOLCOMB | Classmate who "was loved and respected for her courageous battle against her own cancer, but even mo |
| PEARLS | What of her mistress Carol Ann Duffy felt against her own skin (6) |
| ELEANOR | Queen whose failed revolt against her husband, Henry II, resulted in her nigh on 16-year-long incarceration (7) |
| SUE | Take a case against her (3) |
| CUSSER | Scoundrels against Her Majesty -- one swears (6) |
| STELLA | At the outset, everything turned against her (6) |
| DESDEMONA | Shakespeare character who marries against her father's wishes |
| TAR | Jack has turned against her, rather (3) |
| TROI | "Star Trek: The Next Generation" commander who is half betazoid (but don't hold that against her!) |
| ATALANTA | Fleet-footed maiden who raced against her suitors in Greek mythology (8) |
| HANDKERCHIEF | In 3.3, what does Iago's wife pick up that Desdemona has dropped, which she gives to Iago to use against her? (Iago later presents this item to Othello, which enrages him.) |
| BREACHOFPROMISE | Until 1970, a civil action brought by a woman against her ex-fiance (6,2,7) |
| IMOGEN | Princess of Britain in Cymbeline who marries Posthumus against her father's wishes and later disguises herself as pageboy Fidele (6) |
| CUCKOLDRY | Act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband (9) |
| LOVE | All charges against the releaser of the "___ Bug" virus have been dismissed |
| CLEARED | Dropped charges against |
