| LORDLUCAN | Richard John Bingham, the peer who went missing on November 8 1974 after being suspected of murder (4,5) |
| LUCAN | British peer who disappeared on November 8, 1974 while suspected of murder (5) |
| TYNE | Twenty went missing on north east river |
| ACCUSABLE | Deserving of being suspected |
| UNDERACLOUD | Being suspected |
| ROENTGEN | World Radiography Day is held on November 8, the anniversary of Wilhelm ____'s famous discovery |
| PLUMMETS | Falls for professor suspected of murder, encountered on the first of September? |
| THERUBETTES | English band put together in 1974 after the success of Sugar Baby Love, recorded by studio session musicians (3,8) |
| PRESIDE | Sid meets the peer who is to be in the chair (7) |
| SMITH | Australian record-breaking aviator who went missing in 1935 over the Bay of Bengal, Sir Charles King |
| THREATEN | Menace Mad Hatter with George the Second on the first of November (8) |
| NOBLE | The peer who broke a bone at 50 (5) |
| EDWARDS | Richey, lyricist and rhythm guitarist of Manic Street Preachers who went missing in 1995 (7) |
| NIXON | September 8, 1974 pard recipient - and what the constructor did throughout this puzzle |
| OPERATIONOVERLORD | Plan of action in statement to peer who's been stitched up? (9,8) |
| ARGYLL | Line of Scottish peers who trace their ancestry to the Campbells of Lochow (6) |
| CUTONESLOSSES | Forsake an unprofitable business with copper, shady types and those who went missing (3,3'1,6) |
| LOUIE | Walford kid who went missing with his new brother while his parents, Peter and Lauren, were arguing (5,5) |
| BEALE | Walford kid who went missing with his new brother while his parents, Peter and Lauren, were arguing (5,5) |
| AARON | Baseball record breaker of 4/8/1974 |