Possible Clues:

• Jack Sparrow, e.g.
• Talk foolishly about institute operating illegally
• Cross the top off the criminal
• A peril of the sea, as this might make it
• Outlaw dish containing vermin
• Chatter about one danger of the sea
• Soft, cross and crooked on the water
• It makes the criminal angry to lose his head
• In the ship the piano gets cross
• Power mad bootlegger