Possible Clues:

• Snap or staple
• Tie up
• Lot about leader in suit and new tie
• Accelerate, perhaps, enough to make one unable to move
• Shut up or having been banished, for having a gun
• Fix — make tight
• Join footballers setting up equipment for goals
• Join together, as two sides of a jacket
• Fan outside set, somehow, for tie
• Join person starving shortly before noon