| NEWWORLD | Lira included in coinage for the Americas (3,5) |
| MEDECADE | *Tom Wolfe coinage for the 1970s |
| BOOBOISIE | Portmanteau coinage for the uneducated and uncultured |
| CAPRACORN | Cynical coinage for the sentimentality of films like "It's a Wonderful Life" |
| STANDARD | A battle flag raised as a rallying point for soldiers; a royal banner; an established model; or, the prescribed weight/purity of metals in coinage (8) |
| AUCKLAND | New Zealand's City of Sails and fittingly the host city for the America's Cup in 2003 |
| YACHTING | In which sport do entrants compete for the America's Cup? (8) |
| OCCIDENT | Literary term, usually for the Americas and Europe |
| QUARTERS | American coinage for barracks (8) |
| NEPOBABY | Modern coinage for someone turned successful through their celebrity parents |
| ELECTRUM | An alloy of gold and silver, once used in coinage and jewellery (8) |
| LEONARDO | Lira da braccio-playing military engineer, painter and polymath whose Renaissance portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a Florentine merchant, was famously stolen from the Louvre in 1911, by hand |
| TRIBUNAL | But lira was exchanged about noon in court (8) |
| ORIGINAL | The first lira Gino counterfeited (8) |
| AIRLINER | Jumbo, perhaps, to rein in lira exchange (8) |
| SRILANKA | Country sank with lira getting destroyed (3, 5) |
| RESIDUAL | Leftover lira used carelessly |
| FLORIN | Old coin is exciting for Neil, wanting the ultimate in coinage (6) |
| GRETEL | Name the first Australian yacht to challenge for the America's Cup |
| MEGXIT | Portmanteau coinage for recent news about the royal family |
