| MAFIOSI | Are they members of mob? If so, I am in trouble (7) |
| MAFIOSO | One of the mob, if so disorderly, imprisoned by authoritarian leader |
| RACKETEER | Facilitator of rally always contracted member of mob? (9) |
| STRAITS | Opens up and I am in trouble (7) |
| COGITOERGOSUM | I am thinking? So I am - in Latin! |
| DESCARTES | Rene -; French philosopher who coined the dictum cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) in his 1637 treatise Discourse on Method (9) |
| IVENOTBENIN | 'If so,' I remarked wearily as we entered Porto Novo, 'it's the only place ___' |
| LAMIA | Am in trouble getting up for wicked witch (5) |
| RETIRED | In a way I tire and blush but then, I am withdrawn! (7) |
| CLIMBER | Party clothes initially paraded by agile upwardly mobile member of the Ant Hill Mob? (6,7) |
| MAGNETO | Most of mob encircles silver screen Marvel villain (7) |
| MEERKAT | Take me dancing with gangster, ultimately becoming part of mob (7) |
| RIOTACT | What might be read as warning to the mob? |
| SCATTER | De-mob? |
| RIOTER | Member of mob in port starts to turn everyone rebellious (6) |
| GOLDENCASKET | In 2.7, the first suitor must choose a casket. Portia has told him: "One of them contains my picture, prince. If you choose that, then I am yours withal." Which casket does he choose? |
| DIAMETER | A straight line, so I am kept in check (8) |
| GANGSTER | Joker enlists new member of mob (8) |
| MISO | So, I am quickly preparing some soup base (4) |
| IMPENITENT | So I am a writer with one canvas home, and unrepentant (10) |
