| IMPRISONMENT | It's time child, accompanied by me, invested in a stamp |
| OTT | Slugger in a stamp series, along with Mantle, Greenberg, and Campanella |
| HINGE | Gummed holder in a stamp album |
| ANI | Tropical bird featured in a stamp? |
| INK | Colored stuff in a stamp pad |
| SEAL | Ocean mammal in a stamp? (4) |
| BROOKE | One-time child actress famed for The Blue Lagoon, _ Shields (6) |
| ONEAL | One-time child actress, Tatum _'_ (1'4) |
| MACAULAY | One-time child actor, _ Culkin (8) |
| SLEEPING | A --------partner, someone who has money invested in a business but takes no part in its management (8) |
| OLIGARCH | What is a ruler in a system where power is invested in a few (8) |
| MONARCHY | A state in which sovereign power is invested in a king or queen (8) |
| ABSOLUTISM | The principle of a political system in which unrestricted power is invested in a monarch or dictator (10) |
| MONEY | Capital invested in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company (4,5) |
| SEED | Capital invested in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company (4,5) |
| RIVER | I have invested in a car, where a boat is needed (5) |
| TIARA | I invested in a heel, knocked up for half a crown |
| ATHENS | Capital at that time invested in a Society |
| ABLATIVE | Time invested in a viable criminal case |
| AMATI | Time invested in a snubbed principal violin? |