| SCRIBLERUSCLUB | Swift and Pope were members of this informal association of authors |
| INKLINGS | Tolkien and C S Lewis were members of this informal literary discussion group in Oxford during the 1930s and 1940s |
| SATIRISTS | Swift and Pope |
| CARTEL | An informal association of manufacturers or suppliers to maintain prices at a high level and control production or marketing arrangement. |
| OLDBOYNETWORK | Informal association of ex-classmates (3,3,7) |
| LASKI | Writer and broadcaster Marghanita and political scientist Harold were members of this Anglo-Jewish family (5) |
| REPTILE | All dinosaurs and archosaurs were members of this vertebrate class, which includes present-day turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodiles. |
| ITALIANS | Galileo, Dante and Vivaldi were members of this Southern European people, the ... |
| SITWELL | Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith were members of this literary family |
| STEPS | Former Celebrity Big Brother contestants Claire and H were members of this group (5) |
| GENESIS | Phil Collins & Peter Gabriel were members of this British rock band |
| LOYAL | Cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble were members of the ... Order of Water Buffaloe |
| APOSTLES | Some of the 'Cambridge spies' were members of the university's secret society, formed in 1820 (with 12 members), The ___ (8) |
| ROXY | Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry were members of ___ Music. (4) |
| TUDOR | Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were members of which royal house? (5) |
| BALLET | Spandau ___, Eighties band 18A and 4D were members of (6) |
| BPOE | Org, that Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ford were members of |
| BORGIA | Lucrezia and Cesare were members of which infamous medieval family? (6) |
| BOLSHEVIKS | What were members of a radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party known as? (10) |
| SCRUB | A minimum of six players is needed to play this informal game of baseball |