| EXPLAINS | Takes the mystery out of |
| STAB | Attempt, have a ... at When you've solved the crossword, the letters on the shaded squares, reading left to right, top to bottom, spell a mystery word. The mystery word |
| JOHNJASPER | Choirmaster and uncle of the title character in Charles Dickens's unfinished novel The Mystery of Ed |
| ONEINTHREE | Slight as the chances are, could this be the mystery of the Trinity? (3,2,5) |
| EDWINDROOD | The Mystery Of - - - - - -, Charles Dickens's last novel, left unfinished at the time of his death (5,5) |
| DEADLOCK | No chance of resolution in The Mystery of the Murdered Rugby Player ? (8) |
| ROHMER | Sax --, author of the novel 'The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu' (6) |
| CONVERSATIONS | Most of them are "monologues delivered in the presence of a witness," per the mystery author Margaret Millar |
| OPIUMDEN | Drug establishment at the centre of Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood (5,3) |
| ECO | Who wrote the mystery set in a medieval monastery, The Name of the Rose (1980) |
| ROSA | ___ Bud of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' |
| POIROT | "The Mystery of the Blue Train" detective Hercule __ |
| UNRAVEL | Get to the bottom of, ... the mystery |
| UNACCOMPLISHED | By no means expert description of The Mystery of Edwin Drood? |
| EDGAR | An opera by Puccini - or the annual award given by the Mystery Writers of America (5) |
| TREAT | Lawrence, a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America (5) |
| POE | For whom the Mystery Writers of America named the Edgar Awards |
| KATEMELTON | Actress who plays Daphne in ScoobyDoo! The Mystery Begins and ScoobyDoo! Curse of the Lake Monster (4,6) |
| EDGARALLANPOE | The Raven writer who lends his name to awards presented annually by the Mystery Writers of America: 3 wds. |
| MACAVITY | The Mystery Cat in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (1981), known as the 'Napoleon of |
