Across
- 4. : the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
- 7. : a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
- 8. : a piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.
- 9. : a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
- 11. : a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.
- 14. : close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal.
- 15. : have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof.
- 16. : a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
- 17. : a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.
- 18. : the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Down
- 1. : a reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.
- 2. scene : the place where an offense has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered.
- 3. : the action of deducting or subtracting something.
- 5. : Being accused of a crime
- 6. herring : Something to throw the police off of your track.
- 10. : Warning a future event
- 12. : a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
- 13. : an action or system by which a result is brought about; a method