| CAPONE | Top individual, leader of gang (6) |
| CHAPERON | Check on one individual, leader of school outing? Could be me (8) |
| GAMING | Urchin's leader of gang ___ better to do this? (6) |
| DOGGED | Determined old magistrate imprisoning leader of gang, and daughter (6) |
| SAYING | Motto, for example, favoured by leader of gang (6) |
| RESIGN | Leave leader of gang stuck in viscous substance (6) |
| LINGER | Leader of gang enters passenger ship to delay departure (6) |
| NOTICE | Informed leader of gang to set up in a city in Italy (4,6) |
| GRACELESS | Awkward when leader of gang short of competition? (9) |
| GYRATE | Turn around, as head of gang is an unknown quantity in front of judge (6) |
| SACRED | Deplorable to embrace most of gang as worthy of reverence (6) |
| RECORDBREAKING | Film burglary by leader of gang raising the bar (6-8) |
| GAVE | Informed leader of gang to set up in a city in Italy (4,6) |
| BANDIT | Maimed member of gang is a moneygrabber! (3-5,6) |
| DANGLE | Hold up second half of gang in valley (6) |
| GSTRINGS | Leaders of gang sporting top jewellery One of them must be on the fiddle (1,7) |
| GRUMBLING | Complaining, leader of gang on unmasking (9) |
| MUSICAL | Greek character thus joins leader of Gang Show (7) |
| STUNG | Amaze leader of gang, being taken for a ride (5) |
| FAGIN | Obliged to arrest leader of gang - he hanged |
