| MASONIC | Frantic to cloak, therefore, in a secret society (7) |
| IONIA | She is, therefore, in a mess (5) |
| 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) |
| PLATINI | Only player to score two hat tricks in the Euro, he did so in a single edition in 1984 |
| BIGOTRY | Magnificent venture to cloak ordinary sexism perhaps (7) |
| CHAPTER | Book division; branch of a secret society; Roman numeral on a watch; or, a series of unfortunate events (7) |
| UNDERGO | Suffer in one language and therefore in another (7) |
| PANICKY | Cooking vessel disgusting, so in a tizzy (7) |
| CAMORRA | A secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail. |
| DISROBE | Bride so frantic to remove clothes |
| LOVERAT | A married person in a secret relationship with another (4,3) |
| CORONER | There's nothing in a secret place when he holds court (7) |
| STASHED | Stored in a secret place (7) |
| STASHES | Puts away in a secret cache |
| CAHOOTS | (In) a secret partnership (with) |
| DEREKUNDERWOOD | Kent and England cricketer who took 100 wickets in his debut in 1963, the youngest player ever to do so in a debut season (5,9) |
| PHIBETAKAPPA | Oldest academic honour society in the US, founded in 1776 and a secret society until 1831 (3,4,5) |
| ANTIMASONIC | Political party formed in 1828 to oppose the power of a secret society |
| TRIAD | A secret society originating in China, often tied to organised crime |
| STRIKEAMATCH | Heartsick Matt almost frantic to get a new flame? (6,1,5) |
