| PYRITE | A shiny brass-yellow mineral superficially resembling "aurum", hence its nickname "fool's gold" (6) |
| TUBA | Shiny brass but a messy instrument (4) |
| SWIFT | Any fast-flying bird of the tamin Apodidae, superficially resembling the swallow (5) |
| PYRITES | Brass-yellow minerals |
| ASARUM | A genus of wild ginger with small pitcher-like flowers, hence its nickname, "little jugs" (6) |
| VIENNA | Austrian capital and former home of Sigmund Freud, hence its nickname the "city of dreams" (6) |
| EARWIG | Garden insect which is harmless despite its nickname of pincher bug |
| NASSAU | Sixth to recognise fool's gold, somewhere in the Bahamas (6) |
| BASIL | From the Greek for "royal", hence its nickname "king of herbs", pot herb pounded with a pestle for pesto (5) |
| BUDDLEIA | August-flowering plant attractive to red admirals, painted ladies and many other lepidopterans hence its nickname as the butterfly bush (8) |
| NEWMARKET | Town in Suffolk, location of Tattersalls and formerly the Jockey Club headquarters hence its nickname as the home of racing (9) |
| HONESTY | Flower that derives its nickname "money plant" from its coin-like seed pods; or, a word denoting a method of taking payments that relies on customer's trustworthiness (7) |
| GHERKIN | A small pickled cucumber or large cornichon from which a London skyscraper derives its nickname (7) |
| IRONPYRITES | Yellow mineral also called fool's gold (4,7) |
| ORPIMENT | Bright yellow mineral consisting of arsenic trisulphide, formerly used as a dye and artist's pigment (8) |
| CHRYSOBERYL | Greenish-yellow mineral used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye (11) |
| GOLD | With the Latin name aurum, a metal gilded onto some styles of Satsuma or Imari ware for decorative accents; or, the centre of an archery target (4) |
| GOLDSMITH | Author of The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village ; or, a worker in the precious metal known in Latin as aurum (9) |
| LATIN | Like "aurum" for gold and "ferrum" for iron |
| GOLDPLATE | Dishes, tableware, utensils, vessels etc made of aurum, collectively; or, a metal, such as silver, gilded by means of electrolysis (4,5) |
