| INDIAMAN | Large sailing ship trading for the East India Company before 1858 (8) |
| CARAVELS | Ships trading 5 for 1,000 sweets (8) |
| PUTUPTHESHUTTERS | Cease trading for the day or permanently (3,2,3,8) |
| CLOSES | Finished trading for the day (6) |
| CLOSED | Finished trading for the day |
| HYDERALI | Leader of resistance to the East India Company in 18th century Mysore (5,3) |
| LITERATI | Retail problem at the opening of trading for one of those on the books (8) |
| SEATRADE | Business of the Dutch East India Company |
| STARPAGODA | Coin worth approximately 8 shillings issued by the East India Company at Madras |
| SINGAPORE | Nation that was once a trading post of the East India Company |
| RAFFLES | A clerk in the East India Company who founded the modern state of Singapore (7) |
| GALLEONS | Gals encircle Leon in large sailing ships (8) |
| PREMIERE | Publicity by record company before first performance (8) |
| COMPILES | Puts together company, before making simple change (8) |
| OPENDOOR | Free and equal oportunity of trading for all (4,4) |
| ABOVEPAR | Financial term describing a bond or stock trading for more than its face value (5,3) |
| CLIVE | Robert ---, agent of the East India Company and Commander-in-Chief of British India in 1756 (5) |
| URDU | Official language of Pakistan, chosen by the East India Company in 1837 to replace Persian (4) |
| PEACOCK | Thomas Love ---, English novelist, poet and official of the East India Company (7) |
| COURTIER | One who's upper-class in company before queen, given rank? |
