| ILLUMINATI | Any of various groups claiming special religious enlightenment, especially a secret society founded in Bavaria in 1776; Latin, 'the enlightened ones' (10) |
| SATORI | Religious enlightenment |
| CAMORRA | Neapolitan secret society founded in the early 19th century (7) |
| AESTHETE | Someone claiming special knowledge of beauty (8) |
| VESTEDINTERESTS | Compile ten diverse tests for those claiming special needs (6,9) |
| AMOUR | What word borrowed from French describes a love affair, especially a secret one? (5) |
| LIAISON | A love affair, especially a secret one |
| FORSTER | Author of novels including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India who was a member of a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles (7) |
| RSPCA | Abbreviated name of a humane society founded in Old Slaughter's Coffee House almost 200 years ago by a group of animal lovers including "Humanity Dick" and William Wilberforce (1,1,1,1,1) |
| MAU | Half the name for a member of a revolutionary society founded in Kenya in the 1950s |
| ORANGEMAN | A member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion (9) |
| FABIAN | Member of a left-wing society founded in 1884, named after a Roman general known as Cunctator |
| CHAPTER | Book division; branch of a secret society; Roman numeral on a watch; or, a series of unfortunate events (7) |
| HIMALAYAS | Greeting used by members of ethnic group claiming a mountain range (9) |
| ISRAELITE | In the Bible, a member of the ethnic group claiming descent from Jacob (9) |
| CLAN | Group claiming descent from a common ancestor, especially in the Scottish Highlands (4) |
| LIONSCLUB | A faction of the international society founded by Melvin Jones in 1917 (5,4) |
| FABIANS | Members of a socialist society founded in 1884 (7) |
| FREEMASON | What is a member of a secret society similar to the Knights Templar? (9) |
| MASON | Mum's working for a member of a secret society |
