| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| USURY | Money-lending | |
| LOAN | The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services. | |
| DISCOUNT | To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days. | |
| PAWNBROKER | One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. | |
| LOMBAR-HOUSE | A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piete. | |