Complete Clue List
Across
1. Absorbs a liquid (5,2)
5. Slips away (7)
9. Lawbreakers (9)
10. Microbial forensics can find the source of ____ and other food contaminants (1-4)
11. Merger (5)
12. Vehicle wheel tread pattern (UK spelling; 4,5)
13. Stronghold (7)
15. Fate (7)
17. LABS ROT, hiding English youth detention centre (anag., 7)
19. Came with; Locard's Exchange Principle: the perpetrator ____ something to the crime scene (7)
21. GOT DENSER as unique lacerated margins allowed for physical matching of evidence (anag., 4,5)
23. Bacteriologist Julius who names a type of laboratory dish (5)
25. Tobacco residues, which Sherlock Holmes was reputedly expert in identifying (5)
26. Relating to the science of projectiles (9)
27. Fluid-injecting device (7)
28. As of forensic evidence: be fulfilling, convince (7)
Down
1. Yield, give in (7)
2. Cover story? Sometimes disproved by forensic evidence (5)
3. Crime Scene Investigating professional (9)
4. Light, four-wheeled carriage (7)
5. Made certain (7)
6. Skulk (5)
7. Summarising a person's character details as part of forensic analysis (9)
8. Without delay (7)
14. Author of the Sherlock Holmes stories: ____ Conan Doyle (3,6; title and first name)
16. One might be left in the dust (4,5)
17. Gives away; often DNA or fingerprints ____ the perpetrator (7)
18. Easily deciphered (7)
19. Stirs (7)
20. Nervous (7)
22. Strange NOISE is a red biological dye (anag., 5)
24. Hauls around, as a Crime Scene Investigator's equipment (5)