| PYRAMIDSCHEME | Business - often illegal - where money is generated by recruiting new members (7,6) |
| BRED | Reportedly money is generated (4) |
| PIANOKEY | Yep, Nokia mobile tone is generated by pressing this (5,3) |
| DEAD | With 8-Across, subject of a theory that claims that most of the activity on social media is generated by bots |
| PYRAMID | ____ scheme, a fraudulent way to make money by recruiting more investors (7) |
| BONEYM | Create successful group by recruiting single man (5,1) |
| CASHREGISTERS | Cold residue shows places where money is kept (4,9) |
| LUNATICS | A cult is actively recruiting new crackpots (8) |
| UEY | Often-illegal maneuver that is key to answering the asterisked clues |
| GLOTTIS | Opening of the larynx where the voice is generated (7) |
| IRE | Anger is generated when an asp is taken from Persia (3) |
| CORE | Where heat is generated in a nuclear reactor |
| DISAGREEMENT | Trouble is generated about money - producing this? (12) |
| TURNOVER | Amount of business often done by person who can't sleep? (8) |
| GRAPNEL | Shot when recruiting new student as hooker (7) |
| HUMANRESOURCES | Department in a company whose role includes recruiting new staff (5,9) |
| CUMBERSOME | Copper ring, carried by new members, is bulky (10) |
| POWERHOUSE | Influential people where energy is generated (10) |
| AIRPORT | Fly-by-night business, often |
| SHOPLIFTERS | Without heroin, less profit is generated for criminals |
