| SISTERHOOD | A society of women |
| SORORITY | Society of women |
| SWE | Society of Women Engineers (3) |
| ORDER | An arrangement; a rank; a command; or, a society of knights (5) |
| APES | "Planet of the ___" (1968 film featuring a society of intelligent simians) |
| CONGER | Historically, a society of co-operating booksellers; or, a marine eel growing up to some 10ft (6) |
| MENSA | Fellows state a society of high IQ members |
| ROTARIAN | Member of a society of businessmen promoting community service (8) |
| TONG | Secret society of one of a pair of lifters (4) |
| JESUIT | Member of the order of the religious Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius of Loyola (6) |
| IGNATIUS | Saint ____ of Loyola was a cofounder of the Society of Jesus |
| CLUB | A circle, set or society of people with a mutual interest in something, such as literature, tennis or wine; or, a brass, mashie, putter or spoon (4) |
| SANIGNATIO | The most well-known saint with this name is Loyola who founded the Society of Jesus in 1540, but the town of Son Servera, Mallorca commemorates a different personage when the mark the end of an 1820 p |
| QUAKER | A member of the Society of Friends (6) |
| SHAKER | Informally, a member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing |
| IGNATIAN | Of the Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (8) |
| MARXIST | Leftie has kiss when embraced by a member of the Society of Mary (7) |
| BRIMSTONEHEAD | Location on Newfoundland's Fogo Island which The Flat Earth Society of Canada believes is one of the four corners of the 'flat' Earth: 2 wds. |
| WILSON | Food writer and MasterChef semi-finalist "Bee" whose father is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an award-winning biographer (6) |
| TRASK | English writer of romance novels whose bequest to the Society of Authors funds an annual literary prize for a first novel (5,5) |