| INTHEGHETTO | Song written by Mac Davis, originally called The Vicious Circle, that gave Elvis Presley a big hit in 1969 |
| GHETTO | see 15ac, Song written by Mac Davis, originally titled The Vicious Circle, that was a hit for Elvis Presley in 1969 |
| INTHE | and 18ac, Song written by Mac Davis, originally titled The Vicious Circle, that was a hit for Elvis Presley in 1969 |
| ALWAYSONMYMIND | Song by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson that gave Elvis Presley and Pet Shop Boys hit singles |
| LOVINGYOU | 1957 film that gave Elvis Presley his first starring role, as singing delivery man Deke Rivers |
| TIME | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a circle that bends, a ticking river that flows with no end" |
| ALGONQUINROUNDTABLE | Group of early 20th-century New York City writers and actors depicted in 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle |
| ARC | From the Latin meaning "bow", word for part of the circumference of a circle that originally meant the path of the Sun from horizon to horizon (3) |
| ROUND | Group of early 20th-century New York City writers and actors depicted in 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (9,5,5) |
| TABLE | Group of early 20th-century New York City writers and actors depicted in 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (9,5,5) |
| ALGONQUIN | Group of early 20th-century New York City writers and actors depicted in 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (9,5,5) |
| ALI | He gave Elvis Presley signed boxing gloves |
| IGAVE | Mac Davis hit, Rock 'N' Roll (___ You the Best Years of My Life) |
| CLAMATO | Beverage drunk by Mac a lot |
| EPICYCLE | A circle that moves around the inside or outside of another circle (8) |
| SEGMENT | From the Latin for "to cut", each of several parts into which something, such as an arthropod/insect, orange or population, is or may be divided; or, part of a circle that is cut by its chord (7) |
| KEYRING | Metal circle that might hold the things that unlock your house and car: 2 wds. |
| HELIX | The Inferno briefly has nine in a circle that winds around and around (5) |
| FRASIER | Titular sitcom character who says, about an enemy, "Charm is the vicious grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine" |
| HALO | Opposite of a vicious circle? |
