| AUBURN | Reddish-brown or gold tan (6) |
| SORREL | A reddish-brown or chestnut hue; a horse with a coat of this colour; a dock with arrow-shaped sour leaves; or, in the Caribbean, red hibiscus flower tea (6) |
| STRIKE | Discovery of oil or gold by drilling or mining; or, to score a goal in football (6) |
| ORMOLU | Gold or gold leaf used for gilding brass, bronze or other metal (6) |
| GILDED | Covered with gold leaf or gold paint (6) |
| TAWNY | Common European bird with reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes and a round head (5,3) |
| TAWNYOWL | Common European bird with reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes and a round head |
| ROAN | Of a horse, having a reddish, brown or black coat speckled with white hairs (4) |
| CHESTNUT | A tree of the genus Castanea with reddish-brown or grey bark (8) |
| OWL | Common European bird with reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes and a round head (3) |
| LOCKET | From French for "latch", an ornamental silver or gold pendant containing a miniature portrait, tress or other memento, worn on a chain (6) |
| GOODAS | Words with new or gold |
| DIGGER | Word with clam or gold |
| NUGGET | Bit of wisdom or gold |
| TRACEY | Ullman or Gold |
| PRECIOUS | From "praise, price, prize", a word meaning costly or valuable, as in gems or gold; treasured, as in a person; or, in its ironic sense, affected, chichi, egregious, over-fastidious, twee or worthless |
| PARAGON | Word for a touchstone for testing the purity of gold or silver originally, later a perfect example or gold standard; or, a flawless diamond (7) |
| REEFS | Ridges of rock or coral near the surface of the sea; or, gold- or quartzbearing veins/lodes in the earth (5) |
| ORE | Rock from which a valuable metal or mineral, such as diamond or gold, can be extracted profitably; or, a poetic word for a precious metal (3) |
| POINTILLE | A pattern of tiny dots gauffered, punched or stippled with a fine burin in the art of armoury, bookbinding, gilding or gold tooling; or, the decorative technique used (9) |
