| FREETRADER | Old word for a smuggler (4-6) |
| CONTRABANDIST | In contrast, I'd ban this mixture for a smuggler (13) |
| RUNNER | A narrow rug; a ski; a smuggler; a swift messenger; a sprinter; a stolon; or, a type of long flat bean (6) |
| CARTWRIGHT | An old word for a wagon-maker; or, the inventor of the power loom (10) |
| BOOT | Item of footwear with a long leg part where a smuggler historically concealed a flask of moonshine (4) |
| ALSORAN | Was a smuggler, too, but a loser (4-3) |
| TUBE | Old word for a telescope; slang word for a television; the hollow under the crest of a breaking wave; a container for oil paint, tomato puree or toothpaste; or, a pipe (4) |
| CARREL | From an old word for a round dance, a term for a study in a monastic cloister, thus an alcove or niche with a desk in a library for private reading (6) |
| PUTT | Old word for a bumpkin or a greenhorn; a nap-like card game; a hurl or throw of a stone or a weight; or, a gentle stroke to roll a golf ball across the green, ideally into the hole (4) |
| GUNRUNNER | Force a French athlete to become a smuggler (9) |
| AMULET | Charm a smuggler with last place in boat (6) |
| IRUN | In port, confess to being a smuggler (4) |
| DOARUNNER | Rip off a smuggler and scarper (2,1,6) |
| MULE | Cross a smuggler (4) |
| DOCTOR | An old word for a teacher; slang for a ship's cook; a cool sea breeze in a warm country, thought conducive to health; a surgeonfish; a "sawbones" known to the Anglo-Saxons as a leech; brown sherry; or |
| DOCTORSYN | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh (6,3) |
| REPAIRS | Decide you've had a long enough innings as a smuggler? (7) |
| CUSTRENTSAGENTS | Who a smuggler has to get past |
| RUMRUNNER | The odd athlete a smuggler? |
| OWLER | Historically, a smuggler (especially of sheep from England to France) (5) |
