Possible Clues:

• Cudgel; association
• Join it in the pack
• Driver, perhaps, in a black suit
• Troglodytic weapon
• One card to beat the rest
• With this in hand, one might do the beating
• That's a card that'll beat any other one
• Social organisation women expect to be in
• Stick used to drive young animal round pound
• Clobber to get together