| LIQUIDATE | Dispose of story about bit of money, a source of tension (9) |
| TIDYSUM | Quite a bit of money, a ... (4,3) |
| SEDIMENT | Ecstatic about bit of money that's settled matter |
| CONCENTRATE | Think hard about bit of money put in box |
| BRIQUETTE | Bert quite worried about bit of fuel (9) |
| ELEVENSES | Excitedly sees about bit of lunch, just...after this? (9) |
| CONSENSUS | Agreement about bit of society covered by official count (9) |
| ROSEPETAL | Got up and leapt about, bit of a bloomer (4-5) |
| COINTREAU | Piece of money a true exchange for a liqueur (9) |
| EPIDERMIS | I simpered about bit of skin (9) |
| PUNCHLINE | Culminating point of story about Judy's husband by the railway track (5,4) |
| PRITCHARD | British conductor's power - source of tension in Wagner,say (9) |
| FACEVALUE | The amount of money a coin, paper note, ticket, etc is worth, written or stamped on it (4,5) |
| BANK | From "bench", a word for a money-dealer's table or counter that came to mean an establishment for the custody of money; a tier of oars; a row of keys; or, a sloped side of a river (4) |
| MUTATED | Took another form, subdued about a source of tension, (7) |
| CONVERSATION | Dialogue that's a source of tension in Metamorphosis (12) |
| STRESS | Say positively that it's a source of tension |
| ASTOUNDS | A source of tension in rackets causes amazement (8) |
| ABATE | A source of tension in British company gets to subside (5) |
| BLEED | Win a lot of money a little at a time, from either a game or a particular player* |
