| LESTRADE | Fictional Scotland Yard inspector in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle involving Sherlock Holmes who fir |
| MORIARTY | Professor James ?, arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (8) |
| MYCROFTHOLMES | Brother of sleuth Sherlock in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (7,6) |
| BAKERSTREET | Group of street urchins who aid Sherlock Holmes in various stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (5,6,10) |
| MYCROFT | Older brother of a violinplaying detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (7,6) |
| HOLMES | Older brother of a violinplaying detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (7,6) |
| WATSON | Dr ____ , assistant to Sherlock Holmes in the crime stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (6) |
| HISLASTBOW | 1917 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (3,4,3) |
| SHERLOCK | Detective series based on stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and starring Una Stubbs, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Gattis, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott & Lara Pulver (8) |
| ENOLA | Holmes who was played by Millie Bobby Brown in 2020 and 2022 |
| SUN | The Wind from the ___ 1972 collection of sci-fi short stories by Arthur C. Clarke |
| KATIE | Holmes who played Jackie Kennedy in two TV miniseries |
| LARRY | Holmes, who gave Ali an elementary hiding |
| HOTEL | Stolen by the Spanish and pursued by Inspector in Channel 5 docuseries (5) |
| REBUS | Puzzle in which pictures are used to represent words; or, an inspector in a series of novels by Ian Rankin (5) |
| SMILER | Seen as an inspector in On The Buses, who is Stephen Lewis's character in Last of the Summer Wine? (6) |
| ELBA | Actor who plays the titular 11 police inspector in Luther, Idris _ (4) |
| DIPLOMAT | "The best bunker buster" according to Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s |
| IDIOM | Way of speaking shown by inspector in Isle of Man (5) |
| BRANAGH | Actor who played the eponymous police inspector in Wallander, Kenneth _ (7) |
