| BENEFITS | Advantages or profits gained (8) |
| BENEFIT | An advantage or profit gained from something (7) |
| LUCRE | Profits gained in cruel manoeuvre |
| TURNOVER | Company's income or profits; or, an apple-filled triangular pastry (8) |
| EARNINGS | Wages or profits (8) |
| HANDICAP | Advantage or disadvantage given (8) |
| PLUSSIGN | An advantage or positive quality (4,4) |
| RAKEOFFS | Precentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator (4,4) |
| GRIST | Corn for milling into flour; said grain when ground; malt crushed into mash for one brewing; or, anything that can be turned to advantage or profit (5) |
| TURNOVERS | Word for apprentices, people or things, transferred from employer to employer or place to place; folded pies of apple or jam; or, profits (9) |
| PROSANDCONS | Advantages or disadvantages (4,3,4) |
| STARTFROMSCRATCH | Begin with no advantages or resources (5,4,7) |
| TITHE | A tenth part of produce, income or profits, contributed for the support of the church or clergy |
| UPLIFT | Increase (in sales or profits) (6) |
| HANDICAPS | Races in which competitors are given advantages or disadvantages of weight, distance, time to equalise their chances of winning (9) |
| BONANZA | A situation creating a sudden increase in wealth or profits (7) |
| GAIN | Earnings, pickings, profit or yield acquired or won to one's advantage; or, amplification in electronics (4) |
| EVEN | Without advantage or disadvantage |
| UPPERHAND | Advantage ... or what the answer toeach starred clue has? |
| WEAPON | Means of gaining advantage or defending (6) |
