| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| CULPRITS | Malefactors | |
| EVILDOERS | Does liver upset malefactors? | |
| CAGE | A place of confinement for malefactors | |
| HALTER | A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose. | |
| NUTHOOK | A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors. | |
| GANCH | To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment. | |
| GIBBET | A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning. | |