Complete Clue List
Across
1. Poirot's first name
5. Raymond Chandler's private eye (surname)
10. Intercardinal point
11. Irrational number, 3.14
12. Indefinite article
12. Presently
13. Asimov's Wendell
14. Dashiell Hammett's detective (3,5)
16. Personal pronoun
17. City setting for J D Robb's 'In Death' series (init)
18. Fingerprints, slang
19. M C Beaton's detective, Agatha ______
22. Facial disguise
23. Acknowledged defeat
26. International organization of European countries (init)
27. Ellis Peters's Benedictine monk, Brother ______
30. Symbol for iron
32. Entered a legal plea
34. Rex Stout's orchid-loving detective, Nero ______
35. Place covertly to incriminate another
36. Conjunction
37. Transgression
39. Injure, wound
41. Robert Galbraith's detective, ______ Strike
44. Freudian concept
45. Galilean moon
46. Disinter, unearth (a corpse)
48. Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth (surname)
49. Edgar Allan Poe's detective, 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (surname)
50. Extra terrestrial (init)
Down
1. Baskervilles' animal
2. Basil _____, played Sherlock Holmes on screen 1939-46
3. You and me
4. Police Inspector in many Sherlock Holmes stories (surname)
5. Maltreatment
6. Gentlewoman
7. Single number
8. Winning by default (init)
9. Final part
11. Afternoon (abbr)
15. Writer of the Vera Stanhope detective novels, ______ Cleeves
20. Collection of facts
21. Tool that can bypass all locks, useful to a burglar (8,3)
23. Author of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (init)
24. Metal shackle to secure a prisoner
25. Unprincipled man
27. Symbol for cerium
28. Lindsey Davis's Ancient Roman detective, Marcus Didius ______
29. Seat for the armchair detective, perhaps
31. TLD for Estonia
33. Gabrielle Lord's Australian detective Gemma _____
34. Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter ______
37. First novel to feature 5A, 'The Big ______'
38. Offence punishable by law
40. Miss ______ Silver, Patricia Wentworth's detective
42. Fortification
43. Murder weapon in 'Cluedo'
47. Twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet