| CUTTHROAT | Stay away from Red Lane - a murderer's there (3,6) |
| EARDRUMS | Body parts a murderer's destroyed without hesitation |
| LAMP | Deer shooed away from Red Maple by Tiffany (4) |
| AZURE | Arizona university backing away from red color (5) |
| RAISECAIN | Exalt a murderer and you make a big fuss (5,4) |
| UNCERTAIN | In France a murderer retains key right in a state of doubt |
| ROBUSTEST | From "red", a bookish or poetic word for blushing, crimsoning, glowing like a beetroot or growing puce (9) |
| PINKIEPIE | Animated horse whose first four letters spell the color made from red + white: 2 wds. (Theme answer: This answer is a finger + a dessert.) |
| LANDOFNOD | Where a murderer took refuge in sleep |
| PATRICIDE | Saint almost thought to give up a murderer |
| REDESIGNS | Removing one letter from red ensigns alters layout (9) |
| GULLY | A ravine or valley cut by rainwater; a channel at the side of a tenpin bowling lane; a gutter or storm drain; or, a fielding position in cricket (5) |
| RICCIARDI | Laura, and Moira Demos, writers and directors of the US TV documentary serial Making a Murderer (9) |
| TRUECRIME | "Making a Murderer" genre |
| THROAT | Anatomical "red lane" containing a windpipe; an entity resembling said gullet in function or shape, such as a bottleneck, chimney, entrance/exit or other narrow passage; or, the voice (6) |
| ELIZA | In London's lanes, a Cockney flower seller, her speech a challenging teller, through lessons learned, into a fair lady she does bloom, dispelling her old Covent Garden gloom (5) |
| MAINCOURSE | Shipping lane a non-starter? |
| LASAGNE | Drop in lane a pasta dish (7) |
| FAUCIAL | Cornish river skirts capitals and island area of upper Red Lane |
| GERMANMEASLES | Infection and its cause made lane a mess (6,7) |
