Possible Clues:

• Get ready for attack
• Attack - surround
• Encircled, attacked
• Beleaguer
• Surrounded, under siege
• The way one might be placed if one were about to be 7 down (5)
• This might be the collection that's hard pressed
• This might be a type of work under attack
• Invested Englishman's capital in gilt-edged
• Hem in, afflict