| SOVEREIGN | What word links a former British coin nominally worth one pound with a term for a supreme ruler? (9) |
| CAMERON | Surname that links a former Conservative Party leader to the director of The Abyss and Avatar (7) |
| COOP | From Latin for "cask", a word, sharing its root with a term for a barrel-maker, for a poultry cage (4) |
| EZRA | Pound with a metric system? |
| IMGR | Pound with a shriek of joy entered an ancient island of poets |
| ALBION | Pound with a shriek of joy entered an ancient island of poets |
| FIESTAS | Spanish word, rhyming with a term for afternoon naps, for carnivals, feast-days, festivals, fetes or galas (7) |
| SOURCES | Word, homophonous with a term for flavourful culinary dressings, relishes or toppings, for fountainheads, risings or springs, thus beginnings or places of origin (7) |
| SHILLING | A former British coin that was worth twelve pennies (8) |
| HALFCROWN | A former British coin (4-5) |
| FARTHING | A former British coin (8) |
| BATTERSEA | English invested in pounds with a part of their capital (9) |
| SALAMANDER | What word links a newt-like amphibian to a metal hot plate used in a restaurant kitchen to brown food? (10) |
| MANDARIN | What word links a top civil servant and a fruit similar to a satsuma? (8) |
| QUACK | What word links a duck's noise to a derogatory nickname? (5) |
| WARD | What word links a hospital room and a local electoral district? (4) |
| BRIAR | What word links a wild rose bush and a tobacco pipe? (5) |
| RUN | What word links a score in cricket and a stocking ladder? (3) |
| OVERLORDS | What a supreme ruler does with a certain amount of play at a famous cricket ground (9) |
| SAGA | What word links an old Bill Tidy comic strip with a series of novels by John Galsworthy? (4) |
