| NOTI | Plea of the innocent |
| CHASTE | Dogged reports of the innocent (6) |
| HOOD | English poet, humorist and journalist who wrote Odes and Addresses to Great People, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies and The Song of the Shirt (4) |
| DEFENCE | Resistance against attack, danger or harm; a country's military forces; the plea of the accused in a lawsuit; or, the action of protecting one's goal or wicket against the opposition (7) |
| HEROD | The reigning king at the time of Jesus' birth who ordered the killing of the innocents |
| AGELESS | Eternal plea of the rejuvenation therapist (7) |
| ALIBI | Plea of the accused |
| HERODTHEGREAT | King of Judea who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents so as to kill the infant Jesus (5,3,5) |
| LIN | 'The Flight of the Innocents' author Yutang |
| RADII | Bones found in river two years after the Massacre of the Innocents? (5) |
| COVENTRY | ____ Carol, a traditional lullaby about the Massacre of the Innocents (8) |
| KERR | Actress Deborah of "The Innocents" |
| EEK | Guido who painted "Massacre of the Innocents" |
| RENI | Guido who painted "Massacre of the Innocents" |
| GILL | Eric -, British sculptor and typographer whose works include 1914 print Slaughter of the Innocents ( |
| IDENTITY | Sort of parade where the innocent align themselves with the guilty (8) |
| CHANGEDTO | Dragnet intro 'The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been ... protect the innocent' (7,2) |
| ABOUTTO | Dragnet's opening lines were: "The story you are ... see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent" (5,2) |
| TRUE | Dragnet's opening lines were: "The story you are about to see is ... Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent" |
| ADRIENNE | King, star of films Friday the 13th and The Innocent (8) |
