| THEHOUNDOFTHE | Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a crime on the moors in Conan Doyle's ... Baskervilles (3, |
| FBI | They might help the SEC investigate a crime |
| BASINET | Risk admitting a crime - on your head be it! |
| BAKERSTREET | London street inhabited by Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle's stories (5,6) |
| ADLER | Woman in Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
| ARTHUR | Forename of a novelist who, in his 1887 work of fiction A Study in Scarlet, created the crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (6) |
| SCARLET | A Study in -; novel in which Arthur Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (7) |
| STUDY | A - in Scarlet; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (5) |
| ASTUDYINSCARLET | Debut novel of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, published in 1887 (1,5,2,7) |
| GIBRALTAR | A limestone promontory at the tip of S Spain, settled by Moors in 711, taken by Spain in 1462 and ceded to Britain in 1713 |
| ELCID | Fighter for the Moors in Zaragoza in the 1080s |
| ALHAMBRA | Name the world-famous palace built by the Moors in Granada, Spain. (8) |
| MERCIA | Ancient kingdom of S.E. Spain taken by the Moors in the 8c (6) |
| ALCAZAR | Any of various palaces or fortresses built by the Moors in Spain |
| BETTI | Italian dramatist whose plays include The Thoughtful King, The Duck Hunter and Crime on Goat-Island (5) |
| JUANPONCEDELEON | He fought the Moors in Granada |
| PUNISH | Crime on the rise, flipping hard to get discipline (6) |
| EMBRYONIC | Outraged by crime on the unborn (9) |
| MERCILESS | Brutal unusual crime on the French ship (9) |
| NEUROSIS | Complex crime on the rise to steal money |
