| ALKALOID | Cocaine gets keen beginner surrounded by gangsters to make what I do (8) |
| PUBCRAWL | Turning excited on cocaine, gets into fight in bar tour (3,5) |
| DRAGOONS | Almost attract gangsters to become soldiers |
| CHAMPERS | Cocaine gets in the way of celebratory drink |
| ORGAN | An instrument for gangsters to conceal (5) |
| RECREATE | "What I do," went Frankenstein, "is as God would do again!" (8) |
| IDOLATER | What I do later concerns love for that goddess Diana (8) |
| LADETTES | Women like young men - dealt harshly with what I do when rampant (8) |
| GUNSMITH | He makes what he sells, lock, stock and barrel |
| YOUNGGUN | A keen beginner, my solver's no good with something that needs foresight |
| MAKEITUP | Impute grounds for admitting a keen beginner can invent the thing (4,2,2) |
| FLETCHER | Emmerdale village ex-con forced to take part in a robbery by gangster Max (5,8) |
| COALFACE | Firm with gangster to look at where all the essential work is done (8) |
| ALLEGROS | Gangster to stretch revenue from lively musical passages (8) |
| ETHEREAL | They're overheard behind Oriental gangster to be extremely delicate (8) |
| ALCAPONE | Answer to exam at American Open manipulated by gangster (2,6) |
| EPIDURAL | Takes the pain out of delivering papers in Peru ordered by gangster (8) |
| BIENNIAL | Clip of The Last Stand pub set up by gangster (8) |
| HOODWINK | Fool -- gangster to achieve victory over king (8) |
| ALARMIST | Gangster to provide with piece first - he sees danger |