| DOAROARINGTRADE | Run a highly profitable business as a lion impersonator (2,1,7,5) |
| SUPERORGANISM | Piers Morgan: "US run a highly organised community" (13) |
| UNICORN | Mythical beast - highly profitable new business (7) |
| DIED | Did no business, as a movie |
| MALPRACTICE | Arts master left business as a result of professional misconduct |
| REOPENS | Goes back into business as a restaurant |
| CORNMERCHANT | Is he in business as a bad comedian? (4,8) |
| CONFRONT | Challenge fraud using business as a cover |
| TRADED | Did business, ... as a private company |
| USURY | A highly profitable practice! (5) |
| OPEN | Doing business, as a store |
| WINDUP | Close business as a joke |
| BLACK | Colour of cafe noir, dark comedy, a "hole" in space, gallows humour, lapsang souchong, a non-white tie for a formal event or the veritable ink of a profitable business (5) |
| ROUSE | "... he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall -- |
| SIMILES | "Busy as a bee" and "brave as a lion", for example |
| MONEYMAKER | Bread producer has a profitable business (10) |
| GOLDMINE | Shiftily doing me out of money can be a profitable business (4,4) |
| MONEY | Produces notes maybe and runs a profitable business (5,5) |
| MAKES | Produces notes maybe and runs a profitable business (5,5) |
| ROARAT | Give a vocal warning, as a lion |
