### Clue: Soaking for sailor, very corrupt, receiving rand (9)
### Answer: ABSORBENT 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Soaking
  AB(*sailor*,able-bodied seaman) SO(*very*) BENT(*corrupt*,presumably arising from crooked=bent) around(*receiving*) R(*$$r$$and*, that unit of money in S.Africa, named after Witwatersrand, the gold mining area there).  Defn:  *Soaking* as an adjective describing something that soaks in.