| MARAUD | Plunder a group of gunmen in sludge (6) |
| NAILED | Last of gunmen was ill being arrested (6) |
| ARABIC | Language of gunmen captured by Australia's top writer (6) |
| ROBBER | From "reave, plunder", a person who commits burglary, housebreaking, pilferage, pillage, thievery or other act of deprivation by force (6) |
| RAVAGE | Plunder a grave, perhaps (6) |
| MUDDLE | Word for a dabble, wallow or grub about in clabber, mire, ooze or sludge, thus a clutter, jumble, mess, mix-up, omnishambles or outright fudge (6) |
| LIFFEY | Lough of questionable status, receiving last of sludge from river (6) |
| GOO | Golf balls in sludge perhaps |
| MULCHED | At first light, doing agricultural work, revolutionary wallows in sludge |
| MUD | Greek character died in sludge (3) |
| MUTATED | Transformed English gallery in sludge (7) |
| SUGARCANE | Tropical plant in sludge oddly hard to grasp |
| SEWAGE | When treated, it becomes sludge |
| CARAVAN | A means of transport for gunmen in part of Ulster (7) |
| LIQUID | Sludge |
| ACCRA | A lot of gunmen besiege city council in African capital (5) |
| ORATORIO | Story set to music of old gunmen in honour of city (8) |
| FILTHS | Sludges |
| SLIMES | Sludges |
| AARON | A body of gunmen turned on him (5) |
