| RUMRUNNER | Smuggler was a strange athlete (3-6) |
| SHEARWATER | Going across river there was a strange bird |
| GUNRUNNER | A smuggler (3-6) |
| DOCTORSYN | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh (6,3) |
| DOARUNNER | Rip off a smuggler and scarper (2,1,6) |
| FORMULATE | Plan beneficial to drug smuggler concealing a ton |
| RUNNERSUP | Drink found by smuggler in seconds |
| IMMUTABLE | Confession of drug smuggler about LSD never changing (9) |
| RUNNER | A narrow rug; a ski; a smuggler; a swift messenger; a sprinter; a stolon; or, a type of long flat bean (6) |
| IAN | Forename of a novelist whose subjects include a bridge cheat, a diamond smuggler, a secret agent, a trapeze artist-turned-aviatrix and an eccentric inventor of a magical flying car called Chitty-Chitt |
| ALSORAN | Was a smuggler, too, but a loser (4-3) |
| BOWSTREETRUNNER | Law officer bends birch, say, on smuggler. About time! (3,6,6) |
| AMULET | A drug smuggler getting time for something a lucky jewel thief took? (6) |
| BOOT | Item of footwear with a long leg part where a smuggler historically concealed a flask of moonshine (4) |
| FREETRADER | Old word for a smuggler (4-6) |
| REPAIRS | Decide you've had a long enough innings as a smuggler? (7) |
| CUSTRENTSAGENTS | Who a smuggler has to get past |
| MUMBLE | Speak indistinctively to drug smuggler about doctor (6) |
| AMPOULE | A drug smuggler conceals most of drug in this container (7) |
| BLOW | 2001 crime film starring Johnny Depp as a cocaine smuggler (4) |
