| PENNYPINCHING | Tight couple of coppers (one short) moving slowly (5-8) |
| CUTOFF | Block of copper one loaded |
| COOLASACUCUMBER | Totally calm when a couple of coppers drag doctor into prison (4,2,1,8) |
| APPREHEND | A couple of coppers have shamefaced female put inside nick |
| ACCUSER | Taken into care, bent copper's one pointing finger |
| ELEMENT | Copper's one suspicion (7) |
| PENITENCE | Two ways it follows, among coppers, one's sorrow for sin (9) |
| PREPOSSESSION | Bent group of coppers probing journalists, charged one (13) |
| DISAPPEARANCE | Loss of copper's looks (13) |
| PATIENCE | Good-natured tolerance of coppers going round at one (8) |
| PECULIAR | Strange exercise given to copper, one prone to falsifying evidence, perhaps (8) |
| SHOVEHALFPENNY | Battle with copper one might be hard-pushed to win? (5-9) |
| PECULIARITY | Oddness of English copper, one prevaricating in shame |
| ASHE | Pen name under which John Creasey wrote his Patrick Dawlish novels including A Puzzle in Pearls, A Clutch of Coppers, A Nest of Traitors and A Blast of Trumpets (4) |
| CLAUDIUS | Emperor placing large car in protection of coppers? (8) |
| CHAFFING | Mocking and following this person arrested by a lot of coppers (8) |
| APOSTOLIC | A lot of coppers seizing leaderless horde of followers (9) |
| PLETHORA | Great deal of coppers with permit for Israeli dance (8) |
| ACCUSERS | Those pointing fingers at other types of coppers hiding in shrubs (8) |
| SCOTLANDYARD | Home of leaders of coppers in disguise? Dastardly con possibly |
