| PINKIE | Finger a villain called Brown (6) |
| KERRIGAN | Sarah, StarCraft video games villain called Queen of Blades (8) |
| VANADIUM | Element discovered in Mexico in 1801 and first called 'brown lead' (8) |
| HEATH | Known in Latin as Erica, a plant of a moorland habitat of the same name; or, any one of the littlest butterflies commonly called "browns" (5) |
| TIP | A helpful or practical hint; a race prediction; a pourboire; a nib; the end of a finger; a leafbud of a tea plant; a rubbish heap; or, a figurative pigsty (3) |
| DACTYLIOLOGY | From Greek for "finger", a term for the study or lore of finger-rings or of engraved antique gems (12) |
| TWIDDLE | An act of idly tinkering or turning with the fingers; a curly ornament or mark; a small flourish; or, a tilde (7) |
| LUNATICFRINGE | Possibly finger a fanatical element in society |
| DIGIT | Finger a sod, on investigator's lead |
| PICKPOCKET | It's easy to finger a follower of Fagin. (10) |
| DIGITALIS | Bloomer? Using finger, a student is ... (9) |
| GUMBO | Lady's fingers; a dish (5) |
| RASCAL | To some extent, Cleopatra's called a villain (6) |
| LATEST | News of a bit of a villain on trial (6) |
| BANDIT | Also in the piece we have a villain (6) |
| BEACON | Source of inspiration, play a villain (6) |
| TOPHER | _ Grace, played a villain in Spider Man 3 (6) |
| BUSTER | Which 1988 film has Phil Collins playing a villain in the Great Train Robbery? (6) |
| BADEND | A villain might come to one |
| HEROES | TV show with a villain named Sylar |
