Possible Clues:

• Publicist apt always to make a quick buck
• Shark? Look round for it swimming
• Gain excessively from transactions
• Overcharge for help when driving in wood
• Soldiers returned attack, cutting noble fellow after a killing
• Make money unfairly
• Paid and trained: at any time killings his speciality?
• Make a quick buck for, well, alway
• Member of upper house maintaining backing for appeal gets cash in
• Cut-throat businessman favouring tree receiving support