| TOETAG | What a motionless actor often wears in a forensic-pathology series |
| SILENT | Forensic pathology-based TV thriller, now in its 28th series (6,7) |
| WITNESS | Forensic pathology-based TV thriller, now in its 28th series (6,7) |
| FOGY | Old fashioned type of forensic pathology, having heart excised (4) |
| CSIS | TV shows in a forensic science franchise reaching over 2 billion viewers |
| PRINT | Datum in a forensic database |
| DNA | Twists in a forensic drama? |
| TABLEAU | With "vivant", a living picture comprising a motionless group in costume representing a painting, historical scene or sculpture (7) |
| ASTILBE | A motionless insect picked up flower (7) |
| SHEEPSCLOTHING | What a wolf wears in a saying |
| ARMYBOOTS | What "your mother wears," in a playground taunt |
| PRADA | It's what the Devil wears, in a Meryl Streep film title |
| TIARA | What a pope may wear in a short ceremony round area to the north (5) |
| PLAID | What Angus might wear in a party in Cardiff? (5) |
| TITLEROLE | What a lead actor often plays |
| CONKLIN | Chester ___, American silent film actor often seen with a walrus moustache (7) |
| BACKBONES | Fund a series about a forensic anthropologist? |
| FOZZIEBEAR | He often wears a brown porkpie and a red-and-white polka-dot necktie |
| PROP | *Necessity for a stage actor, often |
| ALANLADD | US film actor, often paired with Veronica Lake in films such as This Gun for Hire and The Blue |
