| FILTHYLUCRE | What the heartless rich, fully corrupt, have acquired? |
| IOUS | Payment promises ... and what each of the starred clues' answers have acquired? |
| ITCHIER | The heartless rich I suspect to be more irritating (7) |
| BOUGHT | The British should have acquired it (6) |
| DETECTIVENOVEL | Find I have acquired new whodunit (9,5) |
| ARGOT | A right to have acquired it in slang (5) |
| NETFLIX | Competitor that Blockbuster could have acquired for $50 million back in 2000 (whoops!) |
| FAMED | Is widely known to have acquired notoriety, say (5) |
| DACHA | Some have acquired a chateau as a country home |
| STATURE | Figure has right to have acquired importance (7) |
| FLATDENIAL | Apartment with study, I, a student, acquired? Absolutely untrue! |
| SECONDNATURE | Instinctive behaviour something that Dr Jekyll acquired? |
| ONTHESIDE | Criminal hides note illicitly acquired? (2,3,4) |
| EARNED | Deserved to have acquired |
| BYTHEOFTHEMOON | Illegal whiskey is said to have acquired one of its nicknames because it was usually made this way |
| GAVOTTE | Acquired a victory within the heartless routine (7) |
| EXPANSE | The size of the former god from the heartless shrine (7) |
| MONTECARLO | Starts the week with the heartless charlie from Italy on the French Riviera (5,5) |
| WHITBY | The heartless boy is behind the beginning of the wildcat strike in greater Wellington (6) |
| THRICE | Several times gained by the heartless, grasping filthy rich (6) |
