| MEETING | Assembly or gathering of people (7) |
| COVEN | A group or gathering of witches (5) |
| PHLOX | Flowering plant, or gatherings of sheep, do we hear? (5) |
| COUNCIL | From "call, summon", an assembly or convocation; or, the body of people elected to serve such a panegyry (7) |
| REEFING | Adjusting, freeing, or gathering sails (7) |
| SESSION | Formal assembly or meeting (7) |
| SOIREES | Evening parties or gatherings, usually at a private house for conversation or music (7) |
| KNEESUP | Informal term for a lively party or gathering (5-2) |
| ROUNDUP | Summary or gathering (5-2) |
| REUNION | Island gathering of people (7) |
| TEEMING | Busy gathering of people requiring couple to swap places |
| REDMEAT | Reported studied gathering of people hunting lamb? (3,4) |
| BEVVIES | Large gatherings of people obtaining very alcoholic drinks (7) |
| GATHERING | Assembly or crowd of people; or, a series of puckers made in fabric by pulling tight the thread in a line of running stitches (9) |
| CURIA | A division of a Roman tribe/people; its place of assembly or its senate; or, the court of the papal see (5) |
| GROUP | A band of musicians/singers, a circle of friends, a class of peers, a cluster of galaxies, a family of chemical elements or a gathering of people (5) |
| AGORA | A type of Ancient Greek market or gathering place from which the phobia of open/public places derived its name (5) |
| 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) |
| MOOT | Word originally for an assembly or meeting, later a law student's exercise of discussing a hypothetical case; or, by extension, a disputed point (4) |
| BIT | Part of a drill assembly or comedy routine |
