| INNERCIRCLE | Privileged group, and a hint to a different |
| COREBUSINESS | Company's main activity, and a hint to a different three-letter abbreviation hidden in 19-, 27- and |
| HIDDENBALLTRICK | Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue |
| FRINGEELEMENTS | Radical members of a group, and a hint to the circled letters |
| BEEGEES | "Jive Talkin'" group, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| SEVENSEAS | Global group, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| BREAKITUP | Stop a fight ... and a hint to a literal feature of the answers to starred clues |
| RAILSPLITTER | Abraham Lincoln nickname, and a hint to a hidden word in each answer to a starred clue |
| LOOSELEAF | Kind of paper ... and a hint to a sequence, each starting with a different letter, found in four other puzzle answers |
| CONSEQUENTIALLY | As a result, and a hint to a three-letter chunk in the five long Down answers |
| OPENFIRE | 'Chestnuts roasting' spot ... and a hint to a divided word found in the answers to starred clues |
| UPTHEANTE | Raise stakes in a game ... and a hint to a hidden feature of five Down puzzle answers |
| RANDOMORDER | Ideal deck-shuffling goal ... and a hint to a hidden word, and how it appears, in the four other longest answers |
| TWOAM | Wee hr., and a hint to a feature common to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| BUMAROUND | Wander aimlessly ... and a hint to a divided word in the answers to starred clues |
| PRIME | Amazon offering, and a hint to a replacement in the starred clues |
| EMI | Found in semi-ripe cuttings, Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd was a British business group and a record label between 1931 and 2012! (1,1,1) |
| THEWALLSHAVEEARS | "Be careful what you say," and a hint to a feature shared by this puzzle's perimeter answers |
| LEMONADE | Picnic serving, and when divided properly, a hint to a hidden feature of six pairs of puzzle answers |
| LEFTFIELD | Figuratively, where some wild ideas come out of; literally, a hint to a word and its position when p |
