| CAPTOR | He takes prisoners in his top car (6) |
| SKILLZ | What Shaquille O'Neal had, in his Top 40 hit of 1993 |
| GULAG | Odd bits of grub given to prisoner in his camp? (5) |
| ESCAPE | The Great -, 1963 film about prisoners in a German POW camp (6) |
| LOCKUP | Confine prisoners in this garage? (4-2) |
| ARRIVE | Achieve success? I have to get a top car first (6) |
| OCELOT | Wild cat upset company by escaping top car park (6) |
| ROLLER | Big wave from top car, as they call it (6) |
| PONCHO | Boss swaps his top for soft woollen cloak (6) |
| AGNATE | Related industrial bigwig blowing his top! (6) |
| TOURER | Whether a caravan, panniered bike or open-top car, it is for long-distance breveting, camping, countryside cruising, exploring, jaunting and generally travelling far (6) |
| TSHIRT | Top car? Could be a Polo! (1-5) |
| ONREMAND | Describing prisoners in custody awaiting trial (2,6) |
| ARRESTS | Apprehends; takes prisoner (7) |
| CAPTORS | Those who take prisoners |
| GINGERSNAP | Biscuit for Ed Sheeran when he blows his top? (6,4) |
| PLASTERDUMMY | It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually e |
| COLDITZ | Castle used as top-security camp for Allied prisoners in the Second World War (7) |
| HOUSEARREST | Law of keeping powerful or influential persons prisoners in their own homes (5,6) |
| BLACKHOLEOFCALCUTTA | Small dungeon in which the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners in 1756 |
