| COSANOSTRA | Mafia stalwarts, on a society holding them back (4,6) |
| SCIENTIST | Despatched confidential informant to infiltrate a society holding Tesla or someone like him |
| KIDNAPPING | Abducting someone and holding them captive (10) |
| NEE | Word on a society page |
| VANPERSIE | Struggle to pen article on a society, one noted for strikes? (3,6) |
| ASTRID | Scandal reflected on a society girl (6) |
| DOS | List on a society calendar |
| DEMON | It's a devil, we assume, holding them (5) |
| RANSOMING | See how they're arming, son? Holding them for a price, too! |
| BODYSTOCKING | Society holding onto goods keeps figure under cover (4,8) |
| CASTLES | Groups in society holding large, defendable properties |
| INTRUDES | Gatecrashes popular, authentic society holding first of dances |
| PROHIBITIONISTS | Banners or people holding them perhaps (15) |
| HAND | The cards! What's holding them? (4) |
| LOYAL | Display olives, holding them up in devoted way |
| FELLAS | Chaps dismiss all efforts holding them up |
| GLASSCEILING | It lets women see the heels holding them down? |
| LASTSTRAW | Crazy stalwarts will have broken the camel's back |
| ROLLER | A non-soundtrack LP from Italian prog stalwarts Goblin (6) |
| QUITETHEREVERSE | Free from interruption on the radio, most of them back out? On the contrary! (5,3,7) |
