| STOCKTAKE | Word for an act of recording an inventory of the goods or merchandise held by a business, thus a reassessment of one's current progress, prospects or situation (9) |
| INVOICE | Document issued by a seller to a buyer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due (7) |
| MANIFEST | Reveal an inventory of the ship's cargo (8) |
| SOLICIT | Drum up business thus, within the law |
| ENTRY | Act of recording one's coming on-stage (5) |
| STOCK | Merchandise held by company |
| SMEARS | Wipes dirt on top merchandise held by Sears (6) |
| ALLOTMENT | Word for an act of apportionment; the portion granted; a parcel of a field historically assigned to a tenant cottager to labour for him/herself; or, today, a plot rented to grow one's own flowers, fru |
| RULING | Word for an act of drawing or printing straight parallel lines; or, a determination by a judge (6) |
| BLESSING | From "blood", a word for an act of consecrating, hallowing or marking with said vital fluid first, now a prayer invoking protection; grace before supper; a gift from God; official approval or best wis |
| ESCAPE | Based on the Latin for "out of one's cloak", word, alluding to the idea of leaving a pursuer clutching just one's coat, for an act of breaking free (6) |
| PICKUP | Word for an act of applying force against gravity to raise or lift a jack-straw, spillikin or anything else (4-2) |
| RUMMAGE | Noun originally for an act of arranging a ship's cargo, later reversed to mean "an unsystematic or untidy search"; or, jumble for a sale (7) |
| DESERT | Word, from "abandoned place, lay waste", for an act of forsaking; a barren arid land; or, a flock of lapwings (6) |
| SPINNING | Word for an act of larruping, slippering or thwacking the derriere that also means breezily fresh, brisk, energetic, flighty, lively, outstandingly fine/large, spirited, striking beyond expectation, t |
| TAKINGS | The amount of money earned by a business from the sale of goods or services (7) |
| MOOCH | Word for an act or instance of blackberrying, cadging, loitering, playing truant or generally lurking (5) |
| OFFER | - of amends; proposal to publish a correction/apology for an act of libel as a way to avoid litigati |
| TURNOVER | Triangular-shaped puff pastry pie baked with an apple filling; or, the amount of money taken by a business in a specific period (8) |
| STOCKTAKING | Periodic production of an inventory of goods in a warehouse |
