| INTEREST | Another word for a hobby or a pastime; or, a premium paid for the use of credit or borrowed money (8) |
| BIRDWATCHER | One on the lookout for a hobby or a kite etc? (11) |
| AGIO | A premium paid for the exchange of one currency to another |
| GOLDCARD | Source of credit, or caution needed? |
| OUTSIDEINTEREST | Hobby ... or a hint for how to finish the theme answers to this puzzle |
| AVOCATION | Hobby, or a specified career |
| INVENTOR | Word for a discoverer; or, one who conceives or designs unique or novel devices as a hobby or profession (8) |
| PLOY | Word for an activity, affair, doings, hobby or pastime with which one is occupied; a frolic for one's amusement; a gambit or tactic in a conversation or game; or, any calculated plan (4) |
| HOBBYIST | Word for one who pursues a pastime or rides a dandy-, merry-go-round, rocking or toy horse (8) |
| MODELLING | Hobby or pastime of making dioramas or miniature aeroplanes, boats, buildings or railways, for example; or, a branch of sculpture (9) |
| SPOTTER | Person who observes birds, trees. planes, weather etc as a hobby or job, sometimes using a handbook or field guide of the same name (7) |
| ACTIVITY | A pastime or pursuit; or, a skill- or team-building exercise (8) |
| RANSOM | A sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive (6) |
| INT | Money paid for the use of money: abbr. |
| CARDGAME | General description of a pastime or activity such as snap, happy families, rummy, pontoon or patience (4,4) |
| HOPES | Desires or wishes; enclosures; combes; or, borrowed from Old Norse, Scots for small bays or havens (5) |
| STAMPS | Postage -; invented in adhesive form by Rowland Hill's, items collected or studied in the pastime or hobby formerly known as timbrology (6) |
| ANGLER | One who fishes with a rod and line as a pastime or sport (6) |
| PHILATELY | Collection of stamps and related items as a hobby or investment (9) |
| MOUNTS | In the hobby or study of philately, another name for stamp hinges (6) |
