| MAKEENDSMEET | Creates a circle for those who live within their means (4,4,4) |
| WILDE | Victorian playwright who said: "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" (5) |
| TUTSI | A member of a people who live within Rwanda and Burundi (5) |
| CLERICAL | Create a circle on line for some ministerial duties (8) |
| HOUSEHOLD | Residence, a fortress for those who live in it (9) |
| NUDISM | It's for those who live a bare existence? |
| CAELICOLIS | For those who live in the heavens, ie goddesses and gods |
| CROSSCHANNELFERRY | Bad-tempered French nearly wrecked their means of getting here |
| AKFORTYSEVEN | Gun, and a description of answers to asterisked clues if the numbers within their clues are summed (12) |
| ROOMATTHETOP | Seats still available in upper circle for film (4,2,3,3) |
| SHAPESHIFTER | Changeling, one squaring the circle, for example? |
| CLOCKGOLF | Mug's game putting people in a circle for this? |
| HERO | Act in a circle for the Roman censor (4) |
| TAO | Time with a circle for proper conduct (3) |
| DADO | Somehow add a circle for wall decoration (4) |
| OBESE | Too large a circle for bees to make (5) |
| CATO | Act in a circle for the Roman censor (4) |
| CLAM | A bivalve such as a jingle shell to which a ringing bell-, buzz- or tinkle-making retro flip phone is likened; or, a person who silently keeps secrets hidden within their figurative shell (4) |
| SEMI | Half of a circle for short |
| CTR | Midpoint of a circle for short |
