| DEFEND | Represent the accused in court |
| DOCKS | Wharfs; bony tops of tails; or, from Flemish for "chicken coops, rabbit hutches, sties", enclosures for the accused in courts of law (5) |
| DEFENCE | Resistance against attack, danger or harm; a country's military forces; the plea of the accused in a lawsuit; or, the action of protecting one's goal or wicket against the opposition (7) |
| DISCHARGED | Dismissed detectives accused in the station (10) |
| BUTTHAT | The words 23 needed when accused in huntin' his totty at random ... (3,4,3,2,7,7,3,7,3,5,2,4) |
| CULDESAC | About fifty falsely accused in blind alley |
| DANCEMUSIC | Accused in ballroom, finally, after disrupting disco, for example |
| ALAR | Apple spray falsely accused in late '80s of being poisonous |
| BLASPHEMY | Sin of which Jesus is accused in Matthew chapter 9 |
| BIGENDIAN | In Gulliver's Travels, the Lilliputian party who cracked their eggs one way; they represent the Catholics in Swift's eyes (3-6) |
| ORANGES | Known collectively as a "pocket", the aromatic hesperidia modelled in chocolate by Terry's, studded with cloves to make pomanders or placed in stockings at Christmas to represent the sacks of coins se |
| LEAPING | Bounding, cavorting, jumping, pronking, springing or vaulting, like the 10 lords recalled in The Twelve Days of Christmas said to represent the Ten Commandments (7) |
| PROSECUTE | Represent the Crown in court (9) |
| TIMPANI | They represent the hunters in "Peter and the Wolf" |
| OBOE | In Prokofiev's Peter & The Wolf, which instrument is used to represent the duck? (4) |
| WESSEX | The name of this historic Saxon kingdom was used by Thomas Hardy to represent the fictional region in which he set his stories (6) |
| IANDI | Iyaric phrase that can represent the unity of the self with the divine |
| APPLES | Fruits traditionally used to decorate Christmas/paradise trees so as to represent the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden (6) |
| MAOSUITS | They have four outer pockets that represent the Four Virtues described in the Guanzi |
| AMBASSADORS | The First Nations Princess and the Calgary Stampede Princess represent the Stampede as ___ (11) |
