| COERCION | Force party to bind over leaders in criminal investigation (8) |
| YELLOWY | Fairish call over leaders in organisation waiting years (7) |
| MAKEDO | Force party to compromise (4,2) |
| STICKSBY | Supports criticism over leader in Sunday Times (6,2) |
| RACKET | Demarcated group rejecting leader in criminal enterprise (6) |
| DALAILAMA | A boy heading west, a country being taken over, leader in exile (5,4) |
| DETROIT | City Editor disturbed over leader in Times |
| FORENSIC | Relating to the application of scientific methods in criminal investigation (8) |
| INCIDENT | Intend criminal investigation to be in a distinct piece of action (8) |
| REGICIDE | Serious crime example in Rhode Island, with Criminal Investigation Department on point (8) |
| EITHEROR | Bind over Hercules, perhaps on sixth of Labours, offering unavoidable choice (6,2) |
| POWERCUT | Sulk over leaders with energy restricting compromise to what the electricians union might engineer (5,3) |
| SPANKING | Get over leader's punishment (8) |
| STRIVING | Trying hard to bind halfa-dozen w ith cord (8) |
| TRAVESTY | Sham attempt to bind incomplete Zoroastrian works (8) |
| WHIPCORD | Promise to bind joint with last of elastic, fibres twisted together (8) |
| ANTIDOTE | Help to bind NT with OT and Clootie's last remedy? (8) |
| EFIT | Series of 5 items help in criminal investigation |
| MOULAGE | The making of moulds (especially of objects of interest in criminal investigation) (7) |
| CONTEST | Take part in criminal investigation (7) |
