| SELFMADEMAN | Person achieving wealth by their own efforts (4-4,3) |
| SELFMADE | Small fairy and raunchy Dame being successful by their own effort (4-4) |
| RAGSTORICHES | Situation of achieving wealth after being poor (4,2,6) |
| SINKORSWIM | Dilemma faced at sea, perhaps, but they'll succeed or fail through their own effort |
| DOUR | Grim person achieving things, we hear |
| WHIZZKID | Person achieving early success (5-3) |
| YUMMY | Hugely attractive young mothers, usually supported by their own, or their partner's, wealth and ento |
| SOLO | Thus see by one's own efforts (4) |
| SINK | ____ or swim, expression meaning 'fail or succeed by one's own efforts' (4) |
| SELFHELP | Use of your own efforts (4-4) |
| MASAI | East African tribal group who measure their wealth by cattle rather than by money |
| FEATHERONESNEST | Gather wealth by exploitation ... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled squares? |
| ALEAGUEOF | Words followed by Their Own - a Sky show hosted by James Corden (1,6,2) |
| PETARD | Explosive device, one may be hoist by their own one (6) |
| IDIOTS | "Mad" magazine's staff, by their own admission |
| AUTOLYSIS | Destruction of cells or tissues by their own enzymes (9) |
| HOMER | Who wrote "By their own follies they perished, the fools" |
| MORON | Larry or Curly, by their own admission |
| CARVEOUT | Develop (eg, a career) by one's own efforts |
| UNAIDED | By one's own efforts |
