Across
- 3. charge (someone) with an offense or crime.
- 5. A person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
- 6. find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of a search.
- 8. Something, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting.
Down
- 1. a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
- 2. the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder.
- 3. A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
- 4. An action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.
- 7. A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.
- 9. a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.