| INGROUP | Clique or ring organised by publishers (2-5) |
| BANGTORIGHTS | Got ring, organised in Thai capital, caught red-handed (4,2,6) |
| INSIDER | Person included in a clique or society |
| COTERIE | Clique or circle |
| ANNULAR | Ring-shaped, or ring-bearing (7) |
| ENGAGED | May as well ring off - or ring on (7) |
| ARRIVAL | All going into crazy carnival, or ring when you get there (4,2,7) |
| PICADOR | Sanctimonious bounder or ring fighter (7) |
| ORINOCO | New coin or ring found on the river (7) |
| CROWD | A crush, mob, multitude or throng of people or things closely pressed together; or, a clique or ingroup (5) |
| RESOUND | Echo or ring |
| STIRRUP | Metal loop or ring suspended from a strap as a horseman's footrest (7) |
| BOBECHE | French-derived word for a collar, cup or ring around a candlestick's socket for catching dripping wax (7) |
| PLANETS | Space bodies that sometimes have moons or rings |
| ANKLETS | Ornamental chains or rings (7) |
| STYLES | Manners of writing; designs or fashions of clothing; coiffures; or, preferred modes of orthography, design etc observed by publishers (6) |
| GYMNAST | Athlete skilled on the pommel horse, balance beam, parallel bars or rings, for example (7) |
| CLUB | An association or society of members also collectively known as a cabal, chapter, circle, clique or coterie; or, a playing card marked with a black clover/trefoil pip |
| ONSET | Attack on a clique or faction (5) |
| ECLAT | Effect of clique or clubs in story that's picked up (5) |
