| SOIREES | Evening parties or gatherings, usually at a private house for conversation or music (7) |
| SOIREE | An evening party in a private house for conversation or music |
| MASQUERADES | Parties or gatherings to which the guests wear costumes and facial disguises (11) |
| GENERALLY | Mr. Wilder went to a gathering usually (9) |
| DRAWINGROOM | Area in a large private house for receiving and entertaining guests (7,4) |
| LIBRARY | From the Latin for "bookcase", a collection of books; a building or room in a private house dedicated to said tomes; or, a publisher's series (7) |
| PARLOUR | From "speak", an apartment set aside for conversation in a monastery or convent; a family sitting room; a milking shed; a snug in a pub; or, a shop selling ice cream or pizzas (7) |
| LECTURE | A talk given by an academic usually at a college or university (7) |
| FAVOURS | Helpful deeds; or, small gifts given to guests at parties or weddings (7) |
| KNEESUP | Informal term for a lively party or gathering (5-2) |
| MARQUEE | Large tent used for parties or exhibitions (7) |
| CAESURA | Pause or interruption (in conversation or prose) (7) |
| CHINWAG | Companion favoured by comic for conversation (7) |
| BRANTUB | One seen in parties or bar, but sloshed around noon |
| REEFING | Adjusting, freeing, or gathering sails (7) |
| MEETING | Assembly or gathering of people (7) |
| ROUNDUP | Summary or gathering (5-2) |
| UPSTAIR | Like some private-home apartments |
| PLOY | Word for an activity, affair, doings, hobby or pastime with which one is occupied; a frolic for one's amusement; a gambit or tactic in a conversation or game; or, any calculated plan (4) |
| BEES | Busy people, competitions for spelling or gatherings for quilting/sewing, all named for their resemblance to industrious sociable buzzing or humming honey-making hymenopterans of the same name (4) |
