Possible Clues:

• Head absorbing one 'Right Hook', for example
• It makes the criminal furious to lose his head
• A taking individual in the main
• Cross off the criminal's head to make him cross
• Talk at length about one plagiarist
• Penzance persona
• But soft! I reckon to be a criminal
• Buccaneer's revolting culinary discovery?
• Cross at being beheaded in the open sea
• Am I right in the head? A sailor with a cutlass?