| OLDLADY | Noctuid moth, Mormo maura ; or, when capitalised, the Bank of England's truncated nickname (3,4) |
| SILVERY | Word meaning argent, gleaming like moonlight or sounding bright; or, as two words, a noctuid moth with distinctive grey forked wing markings, as seen in flight (7) |
| AUSTRAL | What word for "southern", when capitalised, can be a suburb of Sydney, a hotel in Rundle Street or the southernmost islands of French Polynesia? (7) |
| ORDER | The neatness of the bath, say, when capitalised (5) |
| OWLET | A small downy fledgling "hooter" of the night; or, a noctuid flutterer around a lamp, flame or other bright light (5) |
| TRACKER | Type of mortgage which follows the Bank of England's base rate (7) |
| TOWPATH | Footway or track along the bank of a canal, often forming part of the Sustrans National Cycle Network in the UK (7) |
| EMINHNT | In botanical nomenclature, the descriptive word following the capitalised Latin genus name (7) |
| EPERNAY | Town on the bank of the River Marne in France that is a centre of the champagne industry (7) |
| INITIAL | Nominally speaking, it's capitalised at the start (7) |
| SMITTEN | Perhaps curry and rice capitalised on reversal by trapper back in love (7) |
| BENNETT | Prime minister who founded the Bank of Canada during the Depression (7) |
| LORELEI | Steep slate rock on the bank of the River Rhine (7) |
| GOLDBAR | One of 400,000 held beneath the Bank of England |
| TIERNEY | Maura of "The Affair" |
| JANEAUSTEN | English writer who appears on the back of the Bank of England's £10 note issued in 2017 (4,6) |
| SAMURAI | Feudal Japanese soldier whose middle five letters anagram to "Maura" |
| INGOT | The Bank of England's website says that its vaults contain about 400,000 gold ____s (5) |
| BEECHAM | Emily _, actress who plays Maura Franklin in 1899 (7) |
| GOVERNOR | Mark Carney is the Bank of England's (8) |
