RED: SPACE FENCE POOL BERRY FOOT BOND SQUARE PRESS
BLUE: POISON MERCURY LEAD EUROPE DICE MUG PLATE LOG BATTERY
BLACK: SMUGGLER

Blue has POISON, MERCURY, and LEAD. Also MUG and PLATE. :/

Nothing red jumps out at me yet. Garden for BERRY/FENCE? Or maybe square also? That might hit school.

NEWSPAPER for SQUARE/PRESS?

Blue opens up with HATTER (3). Uhhhhh what? Like the mad hatter? Not sure what that's aiming for. *So my vague recollection was that the mad hatter has something to do with mercury and lead.* Wow. That flew over my head. Assuming the last word was poison. I would have said "to…

Blue words: Poison, Lead, Mercury, Europe, Dice, Mug, Plate, Log, Battery
Assassin: SMUGGLER

HATTER? Mad hatter with MERCURY POISONing, plus tea time PLATE?
LEAD, MERCURY, BATTERY, POISON - want to connect these but don’t know how
LEAD, BATTERY: charge?

Clued HATTER (3): MERCURY, POISON, PLATE
Yay, guessed MERCURY and LEAD, though didn’t inherently intend LEAD.
Ah thinking of ROUND, I didn’t think of that. Might complicate PLATE later. Thought POISON would follow quickly after guessing MERCURY and/or LEAD since… lead/mercury poisoning is a common term. Oh well. Oh yeah, TOXIC would have b…