Complete Clue List
Across
1. Searching question?
4. Asian country, setting for Baby Ganesh Detective Agency novels by Vaseem Khan
7. Quietly respectable, like many detectives
10. Novelist Deighton
11. Sumerian sun god, or the Maori concept of revenge
12. Word after shopping or crime
13. Prank, or mystery story told from the criminal's point of view
14. Sickeningly sweet, or overly sentimental
15. Bovine bellow
16. Swiss peak
17. Spine-tingling
19. Literary category
22. Circumvent
24. Reconsiderations of evidence in a crime
31. Cosy mystery author Elizabeth T. ____, whose amateur detective was Henry Gamadge
32. Crack the case
33. Consume literature
36. Comprehensive, drawing knowledge from many different fields
41. A premise from which conclusions are drawn
43. Original, like C. Auguste 5D (considered literature's ____ fictional detective)
46. Detective's needs, particularly when unexpected
49. In poor health
50. One of the five W's
51. Poe's middle name
52. Suspect's story
53. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" item
54. "Who ____ to judge?" (2,1)
55. Trifling amount
56. Suite spot
57. Start over
58. First name in mystery (and 20D)
Down
1. Squander
2. Slip made by the antagonist in a crime or mystery novel
3. Basic story components, such as crimes in mystery novels
4. Working undercover, briefly
5. Poe's detective: C. Auguste ____
6. Saintly glows
7. Whodunit possibilities
8. Dominant
9. Holmes's creator
18. Private ____
20. Macabre monogram
21. Morgue, for one
23. Best-selling author Brown
24. Arm bones or diameter halves
25. Coastal feature
26. A Hindu sage
27. Artefact
28. With "loose ends", answer all outstanding questions at the end of a mystery novel (3,2)
29. Symbol of resistance
30. Alas, not all mystery novels end happily
34. A case might be made for one
35. Communication forming an important part of mystery and crime literature
37. Confidentiality contract (init.)
38. Bio., chem. or phys.
39. Connections, helpful contacts
40. Colour associated with misleading clues in mystery literature
41. Word in many Agatha Christie titles
42. Apartment vacancy sign (2,3)
43. Distinctive style
44. Means of control
45. Whodunit surprise
47. In the midst of
48. Villain's look