| GUNRUNNER | Force a French athlete to become a smuggler (9) |
| GUNN | Force a French number on shipwrecked pirate (4) |
| MARIE | . ..... -Jose Perec, female French athlete who won three gold medals at the Olympics (5) |
| FRA | Olympic code for French athletes (3) |
| RUMRUNNER | The odd athlete a smuggler? |
| DOARUNNER | Rip off a smuggler and scarper (2,1,6) |
| DOCTORSYN | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh (6,3) |
| BOJACKSON | Only athlete to be a Major League Baseball All-Star and a National Football League Pro Bowler: 2 wds. |
| MARKSPITZ | First athlete to win seven gold medals in a single Olympics |
| RUNNERSUP | Athlete to drink to losers (7-2) |
| BREAKALEG | It's good news for an actor to hear ___/It's bad news for an athlete to ___ |
| RUNNER | A narrow rug; a ski; a smuggler; a swift messenger; a sprinter; a stolon; or, a type of long flat bean (6) |
| USAINBOLT | Self-described "greatest athlete to live" (2012) |
| HURRICANE | University of Miami athlete, to fans |
| SZEWINSKA | Irena ____ is the only athlete to have held the world record in the 100m, 200m and 400m |
| BOOT | Item of footwear with a long leg part where a smuggler historically concealed a flask of moonshine (4) |
| CUSTRENTSAGENTS | Who a smuggler has to get past |
| OWLER | Historically, a smuggler (especially of sheep from England to France) (5) |
| ALSORAN | Was a smuggler, too, but a loser (4-3) |
| IRUN | In port, confess to being a smuggler (4) |
