| CAWS | Cries of murder announcing motive |
| SYMONS | Author of a number of crime novels including The Colour of Murder and The Paper Chase (6) |
| ARSENIC | Based on Persian for "gold", a toxic element with compounds including orpiment, or king's yellow as a pigment, once used as an untraceable of murder known as the king of poisons or poison of kings (7) |
| ASSASSIN | Fragment of glass as singular agent of murder |
| MANSLAUGHTER | Crime of killing, short of murder |
| NOBODY | Nonentity finds lack of evidence of murder (6) |
| CINDERPATH | Track crime on radio ___ outcome of murder involving foremost of radio personalities (6,4) |
| ELIOT | Author of Murder in the Cathedral, a verse drama based on the assassination of Thomas Becket(5) |
| AGATHA | First name of English author of Murder on the Orient Express (6) |
| CROW | Age-old principles of Cluedo: rooms, occupants, weapons and an element of murder |
| PLUMMETS | Falls for professor suspected of murder, encountered on the first of September? |
| DNA | Englishman Colin Pitchfork was the first man to be convicted of murder, in 1988, using this type of evidence (3) |
| TRUMAN | Author of "Murder in the White House" |
| SIEGEL | Bugsy of Murder, Inc. |
| COVE | Cabot ___, Maine (setting of "Murder, She Wrote") |
| COCO | James of 'Murder by Death' |
| ANGELA | Lansbury of 'Murder, She Wrote' |
| SIDEARM | Doctor raised origin of murder weapon (7) |
| EVERYBODY | All extremely English, starting with evidence of murder |
| BUSYBODY | Snoop occupied finding evidence of murder (8) |
