| IVIES | Famed group of eight, with "the" |
| MAJORDOMO | Chap in charge of the house, former 8, with the same way of working (5-4) |
| GLIMPSE | Butchers middle eight with simple arrangement (7) |
| PARTICIPATES | Gets involved when section one says 'Sip eight with soda, initially' |
| ICESKATE | Carve eights with blades |
| SUDHA | Murthy, Author of The 8 with Two Horns |
| CORNROW | Plaited 8 with most of centre worn up (7) |
| AZYET | R&B group that hit #8 with Peter Cetera by redoing "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" |
| PAGE | Patti who hit #8 with "Let Me Go, Lover!" |
| CANTERBURY | Edit barely truncates 8 with 4 (10,5) |
| NEAR | Approach that helps 8 with 11? |
| NILE | River from 8 with a bit missing (4) |
| NEEP | /8 With a glowing face at Halloween, once called flowerpot new (4,7) |
| CRANIUM | Collective name for a group of eight bones forming part of the human skull, responsible for protecti |
| OCTET | Group of eight, and the rest turned up in the Old Testament |
| OCTUPLET | One of a group of eight children born at the same time (8) |
| IVYLEAGUE | Group of eight private institutions of higher education in the north-eastern US that include Dartmouth College (3,6) |
| OCTAD | Group of eight, as in "Eight Is Enough" |
| OGDOAD | Eight, or a group of eight |
| OCTAVE | A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
