| SPECIALBRANCH | Unit in the Metropolitan Police in London formed in 1883 (7,6) |
| COMMISSIONER | Head of the Metropolitan Police in London |
| NEWSCOTLANDYARD | Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in London (3,8,4) |
| PEELER | Old nickname for a policeman (taken from the Home Secretary who set up the Metropolitan Police in 1829) (6) |
| SIRROBERTPEEL | Founder of the Metropolitan Police (3,6,4) |
| CHICKENLEGION | Fighting unit in the barnyard wars? |
| ICECOLDINALEX | WW2 film starring John Mills about an ambulance unit in the desert (3,4,2,4) |
| ROBERT | ___ Peel, two-time British prime minister who founded London's Metropolitan Police in 1829 (6) |
| STALYBRIDGE | Town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester formerly associated with the textil |
| PARRAMATTA | City in New South Wales, Australia, in the metropolitan area of Sydney (10) |
| OSASCO | City in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo lying on the Tiete River (6) |
| IMPRISON | Writer Murdoch about to land Metropolitan Police in jail (8) |
| CID | UK detective unit set up in the late 19th century as a section of the Metropolitan Police Service (1 |
| TRENCHARD | Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who founded the police college at Hendon (9) |
| MET | Challenged the police in London (3) |
| LEIGH | Town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan that is home to the Centurions rugby league team (5) |
| THEALLEGORYOFFAITH | Painting by Jan Vermeer that has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1931 (3,8,2,5) |
| MAILLOL | Aristide ___, French Catalan sculptor, painter and printmaker whose works include Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City |
| SCOTLANDYARD | Where police in London go to new country area? |
| DRAY | Police in London hauled up cart? (4) |