A collection of words used in crosswords with meanings that are not always immediately obvious.

Word in the clueDefinition
BBCAuntie
bizzy / busydetective
breadcash, money, currency
burdenchorus; refrain (the part of a song repeated at the end of every stanza)
enemytime
Georgeautopilot (RAF slang)
hostarmy; religious sacrament
houseone of twelve signs of the zodiac or divisions of the heavens in astrology
issuechildren
keencry, weep
lower(s)cattle, cow(s)
molebreakwater
nearmean, stingy, parsimonious
neatcattle, oxen
organnewspaper
ready / readiescash, dosh, money, currency
rhinocash, dosh, money, currency
ruthpity
shockhair
snow leopardounce
todfox (Scottish)