| JOHNDILLINGER | US bank robber, 1903-1934, shot and killed while trying to escape arrest (4,9) |
| ONTHERUN | Trying to escape arrest, perhaps: 3 wds. |
| ABSCOND | Leave to escape arrest |
| MAKEAMESSOFIT | Handle things badly while trying to convert it into a dining hall? |
| BRASSKNUCKLES | Fighting aid US bank clerk wielded seizing ship (5,8) |
| CLYDEBARROW | Bank-robber partner of Bonnie Parker shot and killed in 1934 (5,6) |
| JPMORGANCHASE | One of the Big Four US banks |
| ADAMSON | Wildlife conservationist and author of Born Free who was shot and killed by poachers in 1980, Joy .. |
| GARRETT | Pat ___, US lawman who shot and killed the outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881 (7) |
| ASTONI | Ziggy _, got kidnapped while trying to buy a van in Home and Away (6) |
| LETMESEE | Utters this while trying to remember what they'd allowed first person to catch sight of |
| DILLINGER | Cover back and wait for US bank-robber (9) |
| BONNIE | US bank robber and partner of Clyde (6) |
| ESCOBAR | Andres ___, Colombian footballer who was shot and killed after scoring an own goal in the 1994 FIFA |
| NELSON | British naval commander, shot and killed by a French sniper during a famous sea battle of 1805 (6) |
| ANTHONY | Suffragist arrested while trying to vote on November 5, 1872 |
| LEANDER | In Greek mythology, the lover of Hero, who drowned while trying to swim across the Hellespont (7) |
| ARM | Limb that you might twist while trying to lick your elbow |
| TWO | "Woman Accidentally Achieves Transcendent Mental Blankness While Trying to Add ___ Numbers" (Reductress headline) |
| REACHIN | Commit a foul while trying to steal the basketball, perhaps |
