| AUTONOMY | For heavyweight in gold, ring my self-governing state (8) |
| FIVE | Number of gold rings my true love sent (4) |
| HAITI | Island in Hawaii becomes self-governing state |
| AUDIO | I would return in gold ring that's sound (5) |
| AMATEUR | Friend invested in gold rings, originally a dabbler (7) |
| RINGTONE | Heavyweight in enclosure initially explaining sound of phone (8) |
| TOROIDAL | Doughnut- shaped gold ring in sort of wave (8) |
| DRAUPNIR | Odin's gold ring in Norse mythology (8) |
| KINGSTON | Monarchs meet heavyweight in Jamaica |
| SONOROUS | Rich relative given gold ring by Uncle Sam (8) |
| HUMOROUS | Gold ring found in compost - that's funny |
| SONEROUS | Rich relative with gold ring (American) (8) |
| AUREVOIR | Gold ring round in ebbing water, I'm off! (2,6) |
| LIEDOGGO | Hide displaced one, for example, with gold ring (3, 5) |
| AUGRATIN | Left crumby gold ring at repairs (2,6) |
| GATHERER | Collector at present into gold rings, primarily |
| RUNSOUTON | Leaves in the lurch to manage old French money for heavyweight (4,3,2) |
| GERRYMANDERING | Ring my gardener about shifting boundaries in plot? (14) |
| WARD | Anita ___, US singer noted for her 1979 song Ring My Bell |
| ITBEATSME | What does my self-flagellation achieve? I dunno (2,5,2) |
