| CASHEDIN | Realised she'd been caught by the murderer |
| BABY | Insisting that she'd "been a very good girl," Eartha Kitt sang this sultry seasonal song (including a detailed wishlist): "Santa ___" |
| CASHESIN | Realises she's been captured by the murderer |
| GOSHAWK | Bird has somehow been caught by April fool (7) |
| BEFALLEN | Had happened to stumble and been caught by (8) |
| CAPTAIN | The officer's likely to be taken in by the murderer (7) |
| ITSAFAIRCOP | Admission that one has been caught by a blond policeman (3,1,4,3) |
| OFFSIDE | Where you don't want to be caught by the referee on the field |
| DOE | Rabbit, perhaps, ready to be caught by the ears |
| GETINASTEW | Become worried that you'll be caught by the cannibal? |
| GLAD | Willing to be caught by the cleaning lady (4) |
| FISHNET | In which to be caught by the fins, possibly? (7) |
| WHODUNIT | What's the identity of the murderer of the language? (8) |
| RUNAMILE | One chap about to be caught by the law gets to flee, being scared (3,1,4) |
| LEVERET | Young hare about to be caught by the French animal surgeon (7) |
| WORM | What creature is said to be caught by the early bird? (4) |
| ABEL | The sailor gets the French to go back for the murderer's victim (4) |
| SERIALKILLER | The murderer in the soap? (6,6) |
| ORANG | The murderer of the Rue Morgue |
| CAIRN | With the dog, run in the murderer (5) |