Possible Clues:

• Bamboozles
• Tricks
• Deceives gangsters storing whiskey in heart of speakeasy
• Deceives with bat, slicing through covers
• Flips one's lid perhaps following local tough fools
• Deceives or, archaically, blindfolds
• Has bonnet with flashes
• Robin bats an eyelid at gulls
• Variable wind blows around bluffs