| FAMILY | Social unit consisting of parents, their children and, formerly, servants; a taxonomic category; or, a group of similar musical instruments (6) |
| NUCLEARFAMILY | Social unit consisting of a couple and their dependent children (7,6) |
| PROMENADEDECK | For servants, a king yielded back open place on board |
| MAIDS | Servants a spymaster assists |
| BUTLER | Servant's a busy fellow, sending son packing (6) |
| SKIP | Flisk from foot to foot; a jump of a twirling rope; a dodge of class; a team captain; a college servant; a bounce of a stone on water; or, a dumpster (4) |
| BRIGADE | British army unit consisting of three battalions, part of a division (7) |
| TYPE | A category or class with shared characteristics; a device on a coin or a medal; or, little metal blocks bearing letters for printing collectively (4) |
| PRIDE | Collective noun for a social unit of lions; a peacocks attitude of display when fanning his tail to attract a peahen; or, one of the seven deadly sins (5) |
| SET | Weightlifting unit consisting of a number of repetitions |
| COHORT | A unit of the ancient Roman army - or a taxonomic rank (6) |
| INFANTRY | Army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot (8) |
| ORDER | Taxonomic category forming part of a class and which contains one or more families (5) |
| TRIBE | Taxonomic category intermediate between a genus and a family or subfamily (5) |
| GENRE | Kind, category or sort, especially of a literary or artistic work (5) |
| MANDARIN | Word for a senior bureaucrat, a leading Whitehall civil servant, a Chinese language or a citrus fruit (8) |
| STORGE | Greek-derived word for natural or instinctual affection, as of parents for their children, or vice versa (6) |
| LUMEN | Unit consisting of fifty united soldiers (5) |
| FAMILIAR | From "household servant", a word for a close friend or other constant companion; or, a witch's attendant spirit, often in animal/demon form (8) |
| DIFFERENTANIMAL | It's in a whole other category ... or a hint to the starred answers |
