| FLYINGSQUAD | Specialist robbery and violent crime unit formed at Scotland Yard by DCI Frederick Wensley in 1918 (6,5) |
| DALES | Aire, Birk, Cotter, Deep, Lunes, Ribbles and Wensley, but all valleys (5) |
| PHILIPGLENISTER | Triple helping is brought out by DCI Hunt (6,9) |
| SLAUGHTER | Tod ___, English actor whose films include King of the Underworld and Murder at Scotland Yard |
| METRE | About a yard, at Scotland Yard |
| ARMEDHEIST | Amish deter rioting and violent crime |
| AVIARY | Six soldiers in retreat hiding in a yard by large bird enclosure (6) |
| CALORIE | Nutrition label unit formed by anagramming all but the P in "polar ice" |
| BYTE | Data storage unit formed by anagramming all but the G of "get by" |
| SUBWAY | Coach retires and opens warehouse and yard by underpass (6) |
| CID | Scotland Yard crime unit (1,1,1) |
| RONNIEBIGGS | He went on the run after the Great Train Robbery and ended up in Brazil for decades (6,5) |
| TBSP | Recipe unit formed by rearranging the consonants in "boat pose": Abbr. |
| MINIPINTS | Small ale units formed by a synonym for "tiny" + liquid measures that are smaller than quarts: 2 wds. (Theme answer: The circled letters and the three letters they surround are each words in this puzz |
| SMUGGLING | Getting pounds in small robbery and running |
| BANDITRY | Group, ill-willed at the outset, attempt robbery and violence |
| VOLT | Electrical unit formed by anagramming the last four letters of "Mazel tov!" |
| HUMBER | Estuary formed at the junction of the rivers Ouse and Trent near Goole in North Eastern England |
| PARANA | River of South America formed at the confluence of the Paranaiba and Grande Rivers in Brazil (6) |
| LYCHGATE | Opening to yard by church, good for carrying in deceased |
