| OPHIR | Old mining town in Ontario sharing the name of the rich-in-gold Biblical region |
| TURKEYPOINT | Provincial Park in Ontario sharing the name of the lake erie village where it is situated: 2 wds. |
| PLUTOCRATIC | Planet, very cold, with over half of the rich in power (11) |
| WEIPA | Old mining town |
| RINGOFFIRE | Mineral-rich region of northern Ontario sharing the name of a Johnny Cash song: 3 wds. |
| YORKSHIRE | Small island on Lake Ontario sharing the name of a Christmas pudding |
| DUBAI | Tax-free playground for the rich in the United Arab Emirates (5) |
| ACHED | Half the rich in A&E meeting bad end suffered (5) |
| GIBBONS | Author of The Rich House and The Woods in Winter whose 1932 burlesque Cold Comfort Farm is the source of the phrase "something nasty in the woodshed" (7) |
| CAMBUSLANG | Old mining site heading for crash slam-bang, amazingly, in the middle of university? Quite the opposite (10) |
| BONANZA | From the Spanish for "fair weather, prosperity", a mine that is particularly rich in gold; a large amount of silver; or, any source of luck or wealth (7) |
| MYCENAE | Late Bronze Age Greek city in the Peloponnese that was "rich in gold", according to Homer (7) |
| GOSHEN | Biblical region of ancient Egypt east of the Nile delta inhabited by Jacob and his descendants until the Exodus |
| NOD | The land of --- was the biblical region east of Eden to which Cain went after slaying Abel (3) |
| BATAWA | Historic shoe factory town in Ontario west of Belleville near the Trent River |
| HILLEND | Name a former NSW gold-mining town in the Bathurst area (4,3) |
| MOUNTISA | Important mining town in Queensland, NE Australia, known as 'the Oasis of the Outback' (5,3) |
| ARAM | Biblical region from which the name of a language is derived |
| TONYPANDY | Former mining town in the Rhondda where Churchill sent troops to reinforce police facing rioting miners in 1910 |
| OGOKI | Reservoir, River or Lake in northern Ontario sharing this name |
