| DETAINED | Kept in prison |
| DURANCE | Ran into wartime leader being kept in prison, in the past |
| OPPONENT | Enemy of love kept in prison briefly upon going inside (8) |
| LET | The French racecourse parasite not kept in prison (3,3) |
| OUT | The French racecourse parasite not kept in prison (3,3) |
| MANSON | Still in prison for orchestrating a series of gruesome murders in California in 1969. (6) |
| NINJA | Professional assassin in prison in Japan (5) |
| SCOFIELD | Prison design engineer in Prison Break |
| PLASTERDUMMY | It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually e |
| TRUELIFE | In accordance with the facts, term in prison is realistic (4-4) |
| TIMEANDAHALF | Life in prison and consecutive one cut in two? You could work that up at the weekend (4,3,1,4) |
| WINTERTIME | How meteorologist might describe weeks around Christmas in the Met Office to season served in prison |
| OFLAG | Second in command meets ensign in prison camp (5) |
| OPENTOTHEPUBLIC | Love in prison: see off Moor in charge, keeping inn unrestricted (4,2,3,6) |
| LIMONCELLO | Beastly sort rings Frenchman in prison for old drunk in Italy (10) |
| BRIGADIER | Officer in prison on board, with a right to pass on penned in (9) |
| COMINGOFAGE | Pottery brought in money in prison, reaching majority (6,2,3) |
| CONTEXT | Book in prison? |
| SERVINGJAILTIME | In prison |
| ROT | Languish in prison, colloquially |