| RIDESHOTGUN | Guard the strongbox, in westerns |
| SANTAFE | Worker breaking into strongbox in state capital (5,2) |
| PETER | Strongbox in quaint slang (5) |
| SAFE | The strongbox is in secure custody |
| LOCKER | One who secures the strongbox (6) |
| SCOFFERS | They mock the strongbox on board (8) |
| PILLARS | The peaks (Gibraltar and Mount Sidi Moussa) that guard the entrance to the Mediterranean, the ... of |
| PILLARSOF | Rocks at Gibraltar which guard the western entrance to the Mediterranean, the ... Hercules (7,2) |
| OFHERCULES | Rocks near Gibraltar which guard the western entrance to the Mediterranean, the Pillars ... (2,8) |
| SWISSGUARDS | Soldiers who guard the Vatican and are responsible for the safety of the Pope (5,6) |
| HERCULES | Rocks at Gibraltar which guard the western entrance to the Mediterranean, the Pillars of ... |
| GOGANDMAGOG | The statues of which two giants guard the Guildhall in London? (3,3,5) |
| ALBERICH | Dwarf who guards the Rhinegold in 1876 work The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner (8) |
| DEFEND | Guard the keys to the last (6) |
| DAUGHTER | Guard the changes for the family member (8) |
| SCREWS | Guards the ship and the sailors in it (6) |
| EVIDENT | It's clear the vet and I must somehow guard the lair (7) |
| COTTA | Terra-___ (like the warriors left behind to guard the first emperor of China) |
| RAVEN | One of the birds said to guard the Tower of London |
| GNOME | A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the inner parts of the earth and its treasures (5) |
