| WORTHABUNDLE | Well off in the cotton industry? |
| SPINNINGJENNY | Small old change found around pub popular with George and Jack employed ages ago in the cotton industry (8,5) |
| CHORLEY | Market town in Lancashire, 8 miles north of Wigan, whose wealth came principally from the cotton industry |
| ENSCHEDE | City in the Netherlands which is a major centre of the Dutch cotton industry (8) |
| SMU | Sch. that plays in the Cotton Bowl |
| ALABAMA | US state in the cotton belt (7) |
| SOUTHERNAWL | Tool for making belts in the Cotton Belt? |
| ORIGINAL | Archetypal old equipment in the Cotton state |
| SPINNER | Revolver found in the cotton mill (7) |
| GERES | Richard in "The Cotton Club" and family |
| SHUTTLE | Maintenance in the cotton mill is a two-way affair (7,7) |
| GREGORYHINES | US actor whose film roles included Sandman Williams in The Cotton Club (7,5) |
| MARRYFORYEN | Wed to be well-off, in Japan? |
| MIDDLEAMERICA | Yanks that are fairly well off in Mexico, for example |
| DROOP | Democratic to lift less well-off in downturn |
| LENAHORNE | American singer, dancer, actress and civil rights activist who joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 in 1933 (4,5) |
| DOWNSIZED | The cotton shirt in the washer got ___ |
| STORMYWEATHER | Song written in 1933 and first performed by Ethel Waters at The Cotton Club in Harlem (6,7) |
| ELI | - Whitney invented the cotton gin in seventeen ninety three |
| BELIEWHITNEY | Contradict the inventor of the cotton gin? |
