| ONTHEMAKE | One endlessly wanting edge in money gained could be? |
| ABSORBED | Preoccupied sailor, in pain endlessly, wanting bunk? (8) |
| CARPORT | Worry endlessly wanting drink? Leave your motor here! (7) |
| TRILOBITES | Extinct arthropods, one preserved in lobster, it could be? (10) |
| ICY | What one cold year could be? |
| LUCRE | Money gained by evil means in cruel game (5) |
| TWOPENCE | Little money gained from shopping in the centre (8) |
| PROFIT | Money gained in a transaction (6) |
| WINNINGS | Money gained in competition or by gambling (8) |
| MINICAB | Conveyance from one endlessly gracious in The Faerie Queene (7) |
| PRISON | Rips out one endlessly in barred enclosure |
| FRIDAYAFTERNOON | Crusoe's man in pursuit of no-one, endlessly before the weekend (6,9) |
| TRAITOR | Rat or rat - it could be? (7) |
| ARTESIAN | New area isn't? Well, it could be? (8) |
| STOGIE | Something to draw on right-hand side of page, so it could be? |
| ENRAGES | Nettles, green as could be? (7) |
| SEPIA | Colour pea is? Could be? (5) |
| LENIENT | Showing forbearance, as 28 could be? |
| SITTINGPRETTY | Rich, as painter's lovely model could be? (7,6) |
| LASTSHOT | First chance's opposite, or what each starred clue's answer could be? |