Made men stagger awkwardly carrying new spades (9)
I believe the answer is:
gangsters
'made men' is the definition.
(made man can mean a member of the mafia)
'stagger awkwardly carrying new spades' is the wordplay.
'stagger awkwardly' becomes 'gagster' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'carrying' indicates putting letters inside.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'spades' becomes 's' (abbreviation in card games).
'gagster' enclosing 'n' is 'gangster'.
'gangster'+'s'='GANGSTERS'
(Other definitions for gangsters that I've seen before include "Groups of criminals" , "robbers" .)