| NGAIOMARSH | "Clutch of Constables" author |
| MARSH | Vintage Murder and Clutch of Constables, author (5) |
| NGAIO | First name of the author of detective novels including Surfeit of Lampreys and Clutch of Constables (5) |
| POSSE | Have five-sevenths of body of constables (5) |
| DISPOSSESS | Rob CID man's body of constables, taking a couple of seconds |
| ROTA | Schedule of constables |
| POSSESSED | Demented fellow brought back by groups of constables |
| TASTE | Last of Constables in gallery's sample (5) |
| TATE | London home of Constables and Sargents, with "the" |
| POSSESS | Seize a body of constables on ship (7) |
| POSERS | Hesitation among group of constables, mostly - three-pipe problems? (6) |
| IMPOLITIC | I'm leading a lot of constables to capture it? Unwise |
| COPIOUS | Many records of Constable's debt? (7) |
| BLESS | Officially approve length of constable's service |
| CART | Haywain, say, seen in the foremost of Constable's paintings? |
| HAYWAIN | The ___, one of Constable's best-known paintings (3,4) |
| NIGHTCLUB | Show venue close to centre of constable's beat (9) |
| SETTING | A clutch of hen's eggs in a nest; "mise en scene" of a film or stage play; adaptation to music; or, the direction of a current of wind (7) |
| 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) |
| SITTING | A period of perching on a chair; an assembly, meeting, seance or other session; a spell of posing for an artist; or, a clutch of eggs (7) |
