| BREZHNEV | ... Soviet leader, restoring Ivan the Terrible, last letters of literati lost (8) |
| SALON | gathering of literati |
| TRIFOLIATE | Arrangement of literati having three leaves (10) |
| ACROSTIC | Poem or puzzle in which the first or last letters of each line spell a word or sentence (8) |
| ALPHABET | What the first and last letters of 13 answers in this puzzle proceed through |
| WELLREAD | Like the literati, you and I will note newspaper item (4-4) |
| LIFEVEST | Discontented literati figure vile suit is intended to keep them afloat |
| TEACHERS | Literati |
| ALPHAANDOMEGA | The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet (5,3,5) |
| FINALE | What's spelled by the last letters of the six long Across phrases |
| ZEES | Last letters of the alphabet (in the US) (4) |
| BFF | Lifelong buddy spelled in the first, middle, and last letters of "ball of fluff": Abbr. |
| ERIE | Equivalent of "digitally loops in" spelled in the first, middle, and last letters of "Colchis": Abbr. |
| NFT | Digital asset initials spelled in the first, middle, and last letters of "night before last" |
| ROY | Name spelled using the first, middle, and last letters of the word "radiology" |
| YEP | Word of agreement spelled by the last letters of each word in "sunny side up" |
| ZANY | Synonym for "goofy" that contains both the first and last letters of the alphabet |
| SZA | Mononym in R&B that contains the first and last letters of the alphabet |
| SLY | Synonym for cunning found by taking the first, middle and last letters of the word "soliloquy" |
| BAZ | Surname spelled with the first, second, and last letters of the alphabet |
