| IMPLORER | I'm getting pennies, pounds and gold sovereign as a beggar |
| EMPEROR | Find a sovereign, as a rule, in Antarctica (7) |
| QUAIDORSAY | Pound and gold, for instance, limiting a French foreign policy-maker's position |
| RAND | Sovereign, as well as foreign coin (4) |
| CROWNED | Made sovereign, ... as monarch |
| CAPINHAND | Panic about person hired as a beggar (3,2,4) |
| MENDICANT | Reform is impossible for me as a beggar (9) |
| IMPLORES | Acts as a beggar is punched by politician over traditional beliefs (8) |
| TAKINGS | Word of gratitude over sovereigns, as money earned |
| ORACLE | Gold sovereign once accepted by one source of information (6) |
| ROYAL | Put up wager with gold sovereign (5) |
| STORER | Hoarder's way to acquire gold sovereign |
| CENTAURS | Coins, including gold sovereign, showing mythical creatures |
| CENTAUR | Horseman needs money -- gold sovereign? (7) |
| TEMPER | Mood tense over missing gold sovereign (6) |
| AUSTIN | Gold sovereign initially can make capital (6) |
| BRIBE | Word, from "lump of bread given to a beggar", that over time changed its meaning from said charitable act to a corrupt act informally called a back-hander, boodle, bung or buy-off (5) |
| GARBAGE | A beggar struggling for bits and pieces (7) |
| BESOGNIO | A beggar, or a raw recruit |
| CADGES | Acts like a beggar and finishes in enclosures |
