### Clue: Male sitter, recognized locally? One deserved hanging (8)
### Answer: HEMPSEED 
 ### Explanation: Definition: One deserved hanging
**HE** ("male") + **MP** (one sitting in Parliament, so "sitter") + **SEED** (dialect word for seen, so "recognized locally") 
*In Shakespeare, a hempseed was someone who deserved to be hanged.