| PHENOMENA | Remarkable people or things |
| DARTERS | Dragonflies known in North America as meadowhawks or skimmers; tropical snakebirds; a name for archerfishes or perches; people or things that dash or flit; or, players of the game "arrows" (7) |
| DRAGS | Word for hauls, lugs or tugs; brakes; harrows; private stagecoaches; cars; puffs on "whiffs" or "tailor-mades"; or, boring or tiresome people or things (5) |
| GANG | Word for a set of people or things which go together, such as a ship's crew; a group of labourers, sockets or tools; or, a band of children, criminals or delinquents (4) |
| CROWD | A crush, mob, multitude or throng of people or things closely pressed together; or, a clique or ingroup (5) |
| TURNOVERS | Word for apprentices, people or things, transferred from employer to employer or place to place; folded pies of apple or jam; or, profits (9) |
| NURSES | Word for a baby's bottle; or, a carer, fosterer, tender or other nurturer or nourisher of people or things (6) |
| MISNOMERS | Incorrect or unsuitable names or terms for people or things (9) |
| PAIR | A couple of gloves, married humans, horses harnessed together, cards of the same denomination or other duo of people or things considered equal or matched (4) |
| CRUSH | A jam or squash of people or things; a drink of fruit juice/puree; a pen for handling cattle; or, an infatuation (5) |
| MASS | From the Greek for "barley cake", a body of matter with no definite shape; a crowd, flock, herd, the hoi polloi or other number of people or things; weight; or, in another sense, the celebration of th |
| BESETS | Precious stones incorporated into gold or silver adornments of the same name; ornamental bosses for stained glasswork; ruby bearings in watches; or, highly valued people or things (6) |
| ATTRIBUTES | Distinguishing characteristics or qualities of people or things; or, symbolic objects conventionally used to identify deities, saints etc in art (10) |
| OMNIUM | From "of all", the velodrome's equivalent of a decathlon in track cycling; or, with "gatherum", pseudo- Latin for a miscellaneous collection or gallimaufry of people or things (6) |
| ROPE | Word for a length of strong funicular cord, thus a cohesive strand or linked line of beads, climbers, glutinous slime, onions, pearls or other people or things (4) |
| RANKS | Lines or rows of people or things (5) |
| THE | Denoting one or more people or things (3) |
| GROUP | Number or people or things classed together (5) |
| DEADWOOD | Useless or unproductive people or things (4, 4) |
| EACH | One of two or more people or things |
