| CASHUPFRONT | Seller's assurance of payment, and a hint to what the last words of the answers to starred clues can |
| STIPEND | Payment and a bit extra in post (7) |
| TOFFEENOSED | Time of payment and refusals by editor? Disdainful! (6-5) |
| CLEARINGHOUSE | A financial institution formed to facilitate the exchange of payments and securities (8,5) |
| CASHBOOK | Ledger of payments and receipts (4,4) |
| TAILEND | Caboose locale ... and a hint to what the first word of the answers to starred clues can be |
| PAPERBACK | Softcover book, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues can have |
| AHEAD | In the future, or, when spoken with a long starting vowel, what the last word of the answers to starred clues can have |
| TALKINGSHOP | Discussing the job with colleagues, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues seem to |
| PHOTOFINISH | End of a close race ... and what the last part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| FALLBEHIND | Lag, and a hint to what the starts of the answers to starred clues have in common |
| JOINFORCES | Team up ... or, literally, what the last words of the answers to starred clues can do |
| HOLDWATER | Be logical... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| HIGHEND | Deluxe ... or what the last words of the answers to the starred clues can be |
| DANCEPARTNERS | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, e.g., and, literally, what the first words of the answers to starred clues can be |
| TAKEABREAK | Rest ... or, literally, what the last word of the answers to starred clues can do |
| SETFORLIFE | Having financial freedom ... and, literally, what the last words of the answers to starred clues comprise |
| GETBENT | Bart Simpson catchphrase, and what the last words of the starred clues' answers can do |
| TAKEAPOWDER | Leave hurriedly ... and, literally, what the first words of the answers to starred clues can do |
| TEAMMATES | Players on the same side ... and what the starts of the answers to starred clues can be |
