| HARI | The stage name of Margaretha MacLeod, executed for spying in 1917 (4,4) |
| MATA | The stage name of Margaretha MacLeod, executed for spying in 1917 (4,4) |
| MATAHARI | Exotic dancer executed for spying in 1917 |
| SOCIAL | No misanthropist has a reputation for spying in Marbella sun (6) |
| MEATLOAF | What is the stage name of the singer born Marvin Lee Aday? (4,4) |
| MCHAMMER | The stage name of American rapper Stanley Kirk Burrell (1,1,6) |
| NIXONIAN | Like one with an "enemies list" and a penchant for spying |
| QUISLING | Vidkun, Norwegian politician who was executed for collaborating with the Germans in World War II (8) |
| CHARLESI | The only English monarch to have been tried and executed for treason (7,1) |
| ETHEL | Julius and - Rosenberg, US couple executed for spying (5) |
| NARCY | The stage name of Yassin Alsalman, the Iraqi-Canadian poet and rapper who released the album Love & Chaos (SpaceTime Vol 2) in 2020. (5) |
| NAUGHTY | Word which when followed by Boy gives the stage name of the producer and songwriter who took part in I'm A Celeb in 2021 (7) |
| EDGE | The ---, stage name of musician David Evans, member of the band U2 (4) |
| HALE | First American executed for spying |
| STRUNGUP | Executed for making a racket? (6,2) |
| RINGO | First part of the stage name of Beatles' drummer Richard Starkey. (5) |
| HOUDINI | The stage name of the escape artist Erik Weisz (7) |
| ATTILA | ____ the Stockbroker is the stage name of a British punk poet |
| REEVES | Medieval manorial stewards; the stage name of Jim Moir, who recently played Jeff Mallock in All Creatures Great and Small or, female ruffs (6) |
| IDOL | Billy ____ is the stage name of singer William Broad |
