| FLAHERTY | She's languishing in jail for one of 8D's character's crimes in Emmerdale (3,8) |
| LIV | She's languishing in jail for one of Paige Sindhu's character's crimes in Emmerdale (3,8) |
| TERM | Time in jail for one Hilary, in a word |
| BOYD | Charity Dingle's partner in love and crime in Emmerdale (9,4) |
| MACKENZIE | Charity Dingle's partner in love and crime in Emmerdale (9,4) |
| ELLIS | 8D's sitcom co-star who is married to Tamzin Outhwaite (3,5) |
| ERIC | _ Foster, currently languishing in jail following the siege at the Dog in the Pond in Hollyoaks (4) |
| CLAN | Family initially languishing in jail |
| TOM | And 19 Across 8D's sitcom co-star who is married to Tamzin Outhwaite (3,5) |
| MUHAMMADALI | "So I'll go to jail, so what? We've been in jail for 400 years." |
| SENTIMENTAL | Languishing |
| BRENT | Corey ___, languishing in Weatherfield jail for murdering Seb Franklin (5) |
| CELL | A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. The basic unit of a living organism. |
| FAYE | ___ Windass, waitress currently languishing in a Weatherfield jail (4) |
| KING | Belle Dingle's estranged husband, languishing in a Yorkshire jail (3,4) |
| SALLYST | And 38D She was in jail for her part in the murder of George Kiss in Hollyoaks (5,2,6) |
| CLAIRE | See 32A. She was in jail for her part in the murder of George Kiss in Hollyoaks (5,2,6) |
| THORNE | Colby ___, former Summer Bay police officer languishing in a prison cell (6) |
| NEARMISS | Submission that's been languishing in the "maybe" pile, perhaps |
| REPINING | Languishing in the grip nine can turn on it (8) |
