| MANSON | Still in prison for orchestrating a series of gruesome murders in California in 1969. (6) |
| CAGED | A century old, but still in prison (5) |
| DRUMMER | One beating master in gruesome murder |
| ZODIAC | 'The ___ Killer', nickname of a serial murderer active in California in the 1960s (6) |
| SUSSEX | Princess Lilibet of ____, royal born in California in 2021 (6) |
| CROSBY | _ _ _ _ _ _ , Stills & Nash, folk rock supergroup formed in California in 1968 (6) |
| FEUDAL | Old-fashioned fellow orchestrating a duel (6) |
| BASKIN | The world's largest chain of ice cream stores, founded in Glendale, California in 1945 (6-7) |
| FRESNO | Largest inland city of California, in the centre of the San Joaquin Valley (6) |
| ARNOLD | Successful Republican candidate for the governorship of California in 2003, ... Schwarzenegger |
| SCORER | Person orchestrating twenty rhapsodies, for a start |
| GAMBOL | Doctor in prison for a frolic (6) |
| ICEAGE | One European's in prison for a very long period (3,3) |
| OCELLI | Nothing in prison for one with eyelike spots (6) |
| MUSCAT | Grape from California in new wine (6) |
| AFRICA | I go to California in the RAF then see another continent |
| MIXING | Orchestrating |
| LARAMS | NFL team restored to California in 2016: 2 wds. |
| STREET | California in San Francisco, e.g. |
| GOLDRUSH | Search for a precious metal in California in the 1840s/50s (4,4) |
