| FOUNDING | The _ Fathers, a loosely defined group of US statesmen including those behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (8) |
| MOD | Paul Weller, aka the ___father (3) |
| EVERYBODY | Each person whether in a defined group or in general (9) |
| COHORT | Defined group in demographics, statistics or market research (6) |
| FRATS | Hazily defined groups, for short? |
| CATEGORIES | Classes, defined groups |
| BROCHETTE | The spit of one of those behind the meat counter perhaps? (9) |
| PIMLICO | Area neighbouring Belgravia in the City of Westminster, site of a number of blue plaques including those of Winston Churchill and Joseph Conrad (7) |
| LICENSEE | At the end of the day, calls time on one of those behind bars perhaps (8) |
| SATURN | Planet surrounded by 60 known moons and circled by a system of rings including those of "A" and "B" separated by the Cassini Division (6) |
| BEAN | A humble legume alluded to in a veritable feast of expressions including those for being vehement or full of energy, having no money, being fully alert, divulging a secret or affectionately addressing |
| TEAM | A group of us who work together are meeting up for an evening meal in the centre of Dartmouth (4) |
| NICOBAR | ___ Islands, chain in the Indian Ocean that form, with the Andaman Islands, a Union Territory of Ind |
| ILL | In the US, what lies west of Ind and south of Wis? (3) |
| SONGS | Coos, pinks, pipes, trills, tweets, twitters, whistles and other avian vocalisations including those of the yellowhammer described as "a little bit of bread and no cheese" (5) |
| GRAMMAR | Rules governing the system of a language, including those stated in morphology, syntax, phonetics, phonology and semantics (7) |
| DRIVINGRAIN | Bad weather for those behind the wheel? |
| RUNNERSUP | Those behind the winner |
| CATSEYE | It reflects well on those behind the wheel |
| THEWESTCOUNTRY | Chutney test row developing in loosely defined region of England (3,4,7) |
