| CAPITALISM | Frame imperial stake and see tea in economic terms (4,6,10) |
| FREEMARKET | Frame imperial stake and see tea in economic terms (4,6,10) |
| DOWNTURN | Department wont to alter source of tea in economic decline (8) |
| SECTORS | Public and private, in economic terms |
| RECESSION | In economic terms, a situation where GDP declines for two successive quarters (9) |
| CITY | Why I see tea, say, ordered differently in Tokyo, for example |
| AFTERS | Pudding where we'd expect to see tea, it's said (6) |
| FEELATEASE | Be relaxed to see 'tea leaf' being sorted (4,2,4) |
| SUPPLYANDDEMAND | Economic term describing the relationship between buyers and sellers of a commodity (6,3,6) |
| SUM | Zero-___ game (economic term) |
| RATE | Annual percentage ___ (economic term) |
| ANTECEDE | Go in front of stake and surrender |
| ACCUMULATOR | A collective bet in which the stake and winnings on each successive event are carried forward to the next |
| ANTE | Stake and it is quite slow (4) |
| BETRAY | Give away stake and fish (6) |
| MAKESAPILE | Produces a large stake and wins a fortune |
| ANTELOPE | Stake and pole destroyed the bounder |
| LAMMTARRA | Horse that won the Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1995 |
| NASHWAN | Horse that won the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse Stakes and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1989 |
| EPSOM | Town in Surrey whose racecourse hosts the Derby Stakes and the Oaks (5) |
