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Answer for the clue "Top ten perhaps, the ones to be done away with? ", 8 letters:
hit list

Word definitions for hit list in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a list of victims to be eliminated (as by murder)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Detective Bobby Caruso was at the top of his hit list . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Allied-Lyons was also said to be on the Goldsmith hit list . ▪ Slow play is at the head of this particular magazine's hit list , and quite ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hit list or The Hit List may refer to: A list of would-be victims in contract killing Hit chart , a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time Hit List (1989 film) , starring Jan-Michael Vincent Hitlist (film) , Indian ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A roster of potential victims, especially a list of people to be killed. 2 A similar list of people to be approached for a charitable donation.

Usage examples of hit list.

That volume, and Small Town, a novel, are also published by PerfectBound, along with the Keller books, Hit Man and Hit List.

Four years later, an international killer known as Carlos narrowly escaped capture when his hiding place in London was raided by Scotland Yard and a `hit list' was discovered, full of the names of famous people he was after, including Lord Sainsbury, Yehudi Menuhin and Bernard Delfont.

He opened the mailbox and extracted a thick sheaf of mail, mostly third-class junk, which reminded him that he lived in a prestigious zip code and was on every mail-order hit list in the nation.

Suppose you're on that hit list and are so scared silly that you are willing to do anything not to risk being killed.

If Ms MacBride was never the direct target in Atlanta, if the rest of you, as the people closest to her, were probably a lot higher on that killer's hit list —.

On the other hand, if the Japs called the raid off because his descriptions didn't match the people on their hit list, what would happen to him and Steve?

She was on just about every terrorist's hit list, but so far, so good.