| FRANCIS | Old coin is for the founder of an order (7) |
| NURSEMAUDE | Popular name for the founder of district nursing in New Zealand |
| JCP | Monogram for the founder of Penney's department stores |
| PILGRIMFATHERS | Traditional name for the founders of the Plymouth Colony in 1620 |
| COREL | Software company named for the Cowpland Research Laboratory, in turn for the founder Michael Cowpland |
| TEMPLAR | Word for a member of an order of knights established by Crusaders around 1119; or, a barrister of the Middle or Inner two of the four Inns of Court in London (7) |
| REALISE | Cash in old coin is English (7) |
| BALLIOL | John de ___, c1250-c1315, son of founder of an Oxford college (7) |
| ASSISI | Italian birthplace of St Francis, founder of an order of monks |
| FRANCISOFASSISI | Italian saint, founder of an order of friars (7,2,6) |
| BENEDICT | Founder of an order of monks |
| EDICTAL | Of an order issued by government (7) |
| OCTOPOD | Any of an order of cephalopod molluscs that have eight arms bearing sessile suckers |
| RODENTS | Mammals of an order characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws |
| PRIMATE | Mammal of an order that includes apes, bushbabies, humans, lemurs, tarsiers, marmosets and monkeys ( |
| FLORIN | Old coin is exciting for Neil, wanting the ultimate in coinage (6) |
| ANDREWMELLON | US Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32, and co-founder of an institute which is now part of a Pittsburgh university |
| MARAVEDI | One day in Paris when going round avenue an old coin is found |
| EDUCATED | Informed old coin is found in river to the west (8) |
| REAL | The old coin is genuine (4) |