| NECESSARY | The money for it is unavoidable (9) |
| STAKE | Kate's to find the money for it (5) |
| NEEDSMUST | Tensed up about problem? On reflection, it is unavoidable (5,4) |
| OLDROPE | Money for it is effortlessly acquired (3,4) |
| QUIDPROQUO | Question nothing chasing English money, for it is an exchange of favours (4,3,3) |
| BAKEAPPLE | An apricot-, orange- or peach-coloured bramble or noop that is also called a cloudberry, for it is found growing at high altitude in mountainous regions of the Nordic countryside, up in the nubes (9) |
| NECESSITY | What is unavoidable is poverty (9) |
| PORTFOLIO | Pool for it is wrong, showing one's share selection (9) |
| SPONSORED | Put up the money for (9) |
| FINANCING | putting up the money for |
| ROPE | You can get money for it if it is old (4) |
| SHOTPUT | The record for it is over 75 feet |
| INELUCTABLE | Having bad clue in synonym for 'board' is unavoidable (11) |
| MEETING | The record for it is likely to be a matter of minutes (7) |
| TENK | The world record for it is a little more than 26 minutes |
| PLAIN | For it is ___ as anyone can see. We're simply meant to be romantic words from The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| SELLINGPOINT | If it's what's most appealing then charging money for it would be sharp |
| GLUON | A type of boson, suitably named for it is the "adhesive" that binds a quark to form a proton or neutron (5) |
| TRIFLE | Layered pudding of cream, custard, jelly and sponge cake whose name, meaning "thing of little significance", is apt, for it is of little consequence to make and very easy to eat (6) |
| EST | Latin for 'it is' |
