| NUGGET | Piece of gold |
| GUINEAPIG | Subject of experiment needing a piece of gold and a piece of iron |
| LEAF | With no certain cognate, one of a plant's photosynthetic folia to whose flatness or laminarity a flap of a table, page/folio, piece of gold foil or a sheet of filo are likened; or, foliage, loose tea |
| STORY | A piece of gold in place of pigs |
| INGOT | Being popular, received piece of gold |
| DUCAT | In tubing, find a piece of gold |
| ATOM | Tiny piece of gold? |
| KARAT | Piece of gold? |
| OLDEN | Ancient piece of gold enclosed (5) |
| NUGGETS | Returning piece earns pieces of gold (7) |
| NAPOLEON | Piece of gold found in the patisserie (8) |
| WELCOMENUGGET | What was found in Ballarat in 1858, named by Richard Jeffery and is one of the largest pieces of gold ever found? (7,6) |
| ELEMENTS | Pieces of gold and silver, perhaps (8) |
| STING | Professional name of the lead singer of The Police whose stand-alone songs include Englishman in New York, Fields of Gold and Shape of My Heart (5) |
| DORSET | County forming part of the Jurassic Coast, site of Gold Hill, where the Hovis advert was filmed, the Blackmore Vale and parts of Cranborne Chase (6) |
| CHAPMAN | Pedlar of "the realms of gold"? (7) |
| CARAT | A measure of purity of gold (5) |
| ARTNOUVEAU | Decorative style of gold pinning torn off part of eye (3,7) |
| APOT | ___ of gold at the end of the rainbow (2 wds.) |
| AUCTIONEER | He gets rid of lots of gold, tossing in ore etc (10) |
