| COTERIE | Exclusive circle of people, a clique (7) |
| INGROUP | Exclusive circle of people (2-5) |
| CLIQUE | Exclusive circle of people with a common purpose (6) |
| OVERSET | Is finished with a clique that's been upset (7) |
| INSIDER | One in a clique, accomplice (7) |
| LACQUER | A clique I ignored excited by entry in rare varnish (7) |
| KNOT | A bend, bow, hitch, tie or other entwinement; a cluster of people; a maze-like pattern of flowers in a formal garden; a rosette; or, a tangle of hair (4) |
| SETFREE | No longer hold a clique without charge (3,4) |
| CLIQUEBEETLES | Exclusive circle of insects? |
| MUSICALCHAIRS | A series of interrelated shifts and changes involving a number of people, a term based on a children |
| MOB | Word for a disorderly or promiscuous crowd; the common mass of people; a gang of criminals or thieves; or, a large flock or herd (3) |
| MISCELLANY | Is small group of people amongst large group of people a diverse collection? |
| BUNDT | From "gathering of people", a Gugelhupf-like cake baked in a ring-shaped fluted pan of the same name (5) |
| GROUP | A number of people: a choral - |
| SET | Collection of items of the same kind; a clique; or, a fixed number of repetitions of an exercise (3) |
| PARTY | Group of people a little left out (5) |
| LEAGUE | Group of people a guerrilla captures (6) |
| CAPACITY | Number of people a room is allowed to hold, for example |
| MESSIEURS | Chaos finding single coins without circle of people living in a nice place (9) |
| THEORIZERS | Those who conjecture from the circle of people who get out of bed |
