| CAPITALOFFENCE | This may result in execution in Edinburgh of criminal middle-man (7,7) |
| EASTER | ____ Road, home ground in Edinburgh of Hibernian F.C. (6) |
| BUTE | ____ House, official residence in Edinburgh of Scotland's First Minister (4) |
| TRISTANDACUNHA | Island whose capital is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas |
| TRISTAN | Island whose only settlement is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, - da Cunha (7) |
| BEHEADS | Actively engages in execution ___ plenty of teachers want to! (7) |
| ERASES | Takes out the middle "man" in "odd man out," say |
| AGENT | The middle-man may get an alternative form of it (5) |
| CHESSMAN | Caryl ___, imprisoned in 1948 until his execution in 1960, who wrote of his time on 'death row' (8) |
| GAS | Legal method of execution in the U.S. |
| GUILLOTINE | Joseph-Ignace -- -, physician who gave his name to a means of execution in revolutionary France (10) |
| CYANIDE | Deadly poison still used as means of execution in the US |
| TYBURNTREE | The gallows named after a place of execution in London (6-4) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien ___, a key figure in the French Revolution until his overthrow and execution in 1794 (11) |
| HOWARDSEND | Catherine's execution in this tale? (7,3) |
| TARPEIAN | ____ Rock, steep cliff used as a site of execution in ancient Rome (8) |
| VALENTINE | Shakespeare role's somewhat ambivalent in execution (9) |
| HUNGARY | Greedy to keep middle man in the country (7) |
| LEASED | Let by a middle-man in Leeds, possibly (6) |
| NOOSE | Legal method of execution in two states |
