Senses popular legend consumed by wealth (8)
I believe the answer is:
meanings
'senses' is the definition.
('meaning' can be a synonym of 'sense')
'popular legend consumed by wealth' is the wordplay.
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'legend' becomes 'g' (leg-end - end letter of 'leg').
'consumed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wealth' becomes 'means' (I've seen this before).
'in'+'g'='ing'
'ing' going inside 'means' is 'MEANINGS'.
(Other definitions for meanings that I've seen before include "Senses intended" , "Imports or intentions" , "Gists or intents" , "Imports, messages, senses" , "The ideas that are intended" .)