| SUA | ____ arma 9A: he takes up his own weapons (3) |
| HIREDGUN | Hit man who can't afford his own weapon? (5,3) |
| DANIEL | & 9A He offered to give his half-brother some of his liver in Coronation Street (6,8) |
| SUME | Take up arms, my friend, ____ arma, amice |
| INIUSTA | Unjust, harsh, unfair: Samnites Sidicinis ____ arma ... cum intulissent, Liv. 7.29 |
| NED | Being diminutive, he takes up little room (3) |
| CARVE | A wasted Gary Oldman _____d up his own face in Hannibal (& then his woof ate it!). |
| BENSTEIN | 1997-2003 game show host who put up his own money for prizes |
| SETTLER | He takes up permanent residence, but the letters go astray (7) |
| TOLLIT | He takes up, lifts: elevat, effert |
| POSER | He takes up an attitude it's difficult to find the answer to (5) |
| CLIPPING | What the sculptor's good at, when he takes up golf? (8) |
| ADOPTS | Past holding a party, he takes up anothers (6) |
| SUMIT | He takes (up), lays hold of: capit (5) |
| PETERMONTEVERDI | Swiss car dealer who set up his own car-making brand in the 1960s (5,10) |
| GIORGIOARMANI | Fashion designer born in Piacenza, Italy, who set up his own company in 1975 (7,6) |
| SOLBERG | Petter ___, Norwegian who drove in the World Rally Championship 1998-2012 for Ford and Subaru, then set up his own team (7) |
| ACADEMY | The ___: school founded by Plato, which Aristotle attended before setting up his own school, the Lyceum (7) |
| TIARA | Headdress; Juvenal 10.267 Priam in old age “posita tulit arma ____” removed his crown and took up arms |
| SUMPSIMUS | We have picked up; arma ____, ready for battle |
