| LADYINTHELAKE | Raymond Chandler whodunit (with "The") |
| DUFFUP | Heart of whodunit with blurb about assault (4,2) |
| AMSTERDAM | David O. Russell whodunit with a cameo from Taylor Swift |
| SAM | Central character in the Raymond Chandler novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| SPADE | Across Central character in the Raymond Chandler novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| BLUEDAHLIA | The ___ ___, 1946 film with screenplay by Raymond Chandler (4,6) |
| PHILIPMARLOWE | Private detective created by Raymond Chandler in the novel The Big Sleep |
| THEBLUEDAHLIA | Raymond Chandler's first original screenplay, for the film that marked the third pairing of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake |
| BIGSLEEP | 'The -', Raymond Chandler's first novel to feature the detective Philip Marlowe (3,5) |
| MEAN | Raymond Chandler's description of the detective's world, the ... streets |
| LONGGOODBYE | "The ... ...", 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler (4,7) |
| SLEEP | The Big crime novel by Raymond Chandler (5) |
| LONG | 'The --- Goodbye', novel by Raymond Chandler (4) |
| THELONGGOODBYE | One of the novels by Raymond Chandler featuring Philip Marlowe (3,4,7) |
| THEBIGSLEEP | 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature Philip Marlowe |
| MARLOWE | Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1939) follows which private detective? (7) |
| SAMSPADE | Leading character in Raymond Chandler's novel The Maltese Falcon (3,5) |
| FAREWELL | Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe novel, ..., My Lovely |
| ALECK | Smart-___ Kill, story by Raymond Chandler (5) |
| INTHELAKE | see 16ac, 1943 novel by Raymond Chandler |
