| CHIMPS | Primates wanted him detained by crown prosecutors (6) |
| BRAINPAN | Crown Prosecutor's first one to reveal source of intelligence |
| KINGOFHEARTS | Honour Dodi - Di wanted him to be this? (4,2,6) |
| TONYBLAIR | Cherie wanted him to take paternity leave |
| ASSIZE | Periodical sitting of circuit judges in England and Wales, until 1972, when replaced by Crown Courts (6) |
| REGIUS | (Professor) appointed by Crown |
| TOPDRAWER | The highest level of compensation rejected by crown (3,6) |
| WIDNES | Daughter detained by drinks in Cheshire town (6) |
| CINEMA | The pictures showing shifty men detained by US investigators (6) |
| THRONG | Personnel detained by criminal organisation, the mob (6) |
| COLOUR | Detained by tribunal interminably, see red? (6) |
| SEDANS | Lawyer detained by short hearing maybe carried chairs (6) |
| DEMEAN | Humiliate me when detained by dean (6) |
| CASSIA | Spice Girl losing head is detained by spies (6) |
| TETCHY | Irritable European detained by chatty eccentric leaving area (6) |
| MOMENT | Chaps are detained by test having importance (6) |
| ELDEST | First-born daughter detained by Spain, in order to prevent ... (6) |
| FRAYED | Charles, maybe, when detained by FBI employee is unravelling (6) |
| PURSER | Ship's officer sure, at sea, to be detained by pair (6) |
| POWWOW | One detained by expression of admiration in meeting for discussion (6) |
