| DREAMING | Absent-minded drunk armed with gin (8) |
| FUSILIER | Soldier in an infantry regiment originally armed with light muskets (8) |
| RETIARII | Gladiators armed with nets (8) |
| DREAMERS | Armed with bitter vetch they become men of vision (8) |
| HOPLITES | Foot soldiers of ancient Greece armed with spears (8) |
| STILETTO | Tote list around, armed with a narrow blade (8) |
| RIFLEMAN | Which soldier is armed with a shoulder firearm (8) |
| SWASTIKA | Many Nazis were armed with this (8) |
| RUMMAGED | Poked around, armed with a broken mug (8) |
| JOUSTING | Medieval sport involving a duel on horseback between knights at full tilt, each armed with a lance (8) |
| COCKSPUR | Word for a spike on a leg of a fighting male game fowl; a catch on a casement window; barnyard millet or orchard-grass; or, an American hawthorn armed with long spines (8) |
| BILLHOOK | William the pirate armed with it? |
| GENDARME | French policeman or criminal armed with information |
| MANOFWAR | Ship that's armed with arms that sting (3-2-3) |
| DELAMARE | Poet Walter, perhaps armed with ale (2,2,4) |
| SLING | Gin drink David was armed with (5) |
| AMERICANDREAM | Armed with camera in forming US ideals (8,5) |
| CACTI | Plants with fleshy stems armed with prickles (5) |
| PIKE | This fish is recognized by the elongate body, long head, shovellike snout, and large mouth armed with strong teeth. It shares its name with a long medieval weapon. |
| XANAX | "... each armed with a doublebladed ___ (to cut both ways, of course)..." |