*Very difficult task, in slang, 6 letters
___ by Numbers (Police), 6 letters
Challenge for Miss Marple, 6 letters
Charlie Chan challenge, 6 letters
Collection of crows, 6 letters
Crime in the game Clue, 6 letters
The it in many a whodunit, 6 letters
Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being, 6 letters
Police tune off Synchronicity, 15 letters
Injustice for The Fugitive, 12 letters
Like many Sue Grafton characters, 8 letters
Trounced, in sports, 8 letters
Possible client for Horace, 8 letters
Whodunit revelation, 8 letters
Weapon for a medieval assassin?, 14 letters
1927 Yankee batting array, 12 letters
Ruth, Gehrig and company, 12 letters
Concern for Columbo, 7 letters
Mayor O'Dwyer (1946-50) became famous for his prosecution of this, 9 letters
Risky Business and..., 9 letters
Agatha Christie products, 15 letters
Four-and-twenty blackbirds?, 13 letters
Group of blackbirds in The Birds?, 13 letters
1944 mystery play by Agatha Christie, 15 letters
Defeats resoundingly, 7 letters
Detectives' cases, often, 7 letters
J.B. Fletcher's address?, 13 letters
Lansbury TV series, 14 letters
Show featuring 41A, 14 letters
*Crime that might bring you bad luck?, 17 letters
Columbo episode directed by Steven Spielberg, 14 letters
Mc___ Sound Antarctica, 5 letters
Henry and Cato novelist, 7 letters
United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931), 7 letters
British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999), 7 letters
A bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses, 13 letters
Cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder, 13 letters