| GRIST | Grain to ground / a source of profit or advantage |
| RIG | To manipulate for personal profit or advantage (3) |
| CASHCOW | Note as to how keeping clubs is a source of profit |
| PLOT | A small piece of ground; a ground plan; a secret underhand scheme, aka a conspiracy; or, in the Scots dialect, a word for "pluck feathers, strip of hair", thus figuratively "to fleece" (4) |
| GRISTTOTHEMILL | Is German child edging into resturant a source of profit? |
| BEACON | A signal fire on high ground; a hill suitable for such a blaze; or, a buoy or lighthouse marking a hazard such as a rock in navigable waters (6) |
| PARK | Word for a space occupied by artillery or wagons, hence a verb for "halt and leave a vehicle"; or, in other senses, an estate's pleasure ground, a public garden or a playground (4) |
| AREA | A vacant piece of ground; a space allocated for a specific purpose, such as dining or penalty kicks; or, the extent of a surface (4) |
| EMINENCE | Word for a piece of rising ground; a protuberance; height; distinction or fame; or, a title of a cardinal (8) |
| BROGUE | A shoe of untanned leather formerly worn in parts of Scotland and Ireland for traipsing over rough ground; a sturdy brown Oxford-like shoe patterned with perforations; or, a mellifluous lilting Irish |
| DRIVE | Private road leading to a house within its own grounds; a party of whist players; or, a jaunt in a car (5) |
| EER | End of profit or auction |
| NET | Type of profit or worth |
| MONEYSPINNER | Bread's found somewhere near Harrow to be source of profit |
| GOLDMINE | No spring chicken belonging to me, following good source of profit (4,4) |
| GOLDMINER | One hoping to find rich source of profit underground (9) |
| EXTORT | Obtain money or advantage through intimidation or abuse of power (6) |
| ROJI | Meaning "dewy ground", a Japanese garden with a path of stepping-stones leading to a chashitsu for tea ceremonies (4) |
| SHAKE | A quake, quiver, rattle or tremble, be it in the ground, a smoothie-like milky drink or a low-frequency sound (5) |
| OYSTER | Secretive person's source of profit |
