| ASSETSTRIPPER | When the group's junkie becomes financial predator (5-8) |
| NEARESTOFVIPERS | First asp most likely to bite when the group is disturbed? |
| OFFICERKRUPKE | Musical character who is told in absentia, "Our mothers all are junkies" |
| THRILLSEEKERS | Adrenaline junkies (6,7) |
| SETSTHETABLE | Arranges cutlery for the groups on the list (4,3,5) |
| FAITHFUL | Member of one of the groups on The Traitors (8) |
| SUSPECTS | Puts us, quietly, in the groups with the potentially guilty (8) |
| JOINTVENTURE | Drug experiment with collaboration between the groups (5,7) |
| SOMERVILLE | Jimmy --, member of the groups Bronski Beat and the Communards (10) |
| TETRADS | Groups of four, and what's spelled out by the groups of four in this puzzle's theme answers |
| UPSURGE | Some of the groups urged a strong increase |
| UPSET | Tip over some of the group's etiquette (5) |
| TIMES | ___ Square (landmark suggested by the groups of circled letters) |
| STARCLASS | Astronomy: any of the groups into which stars are classified (9) |
| BRIGADE | One of the groups which an army is divided into (7) |
| UNIVERSITYQUADS | What the groups of circled letters graphically represent |
| SEAWEED | Macroscopic marine algae, as of the groups Chlorophyta, Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyta etc. (7) |
| LITTERS | Makes a mess with the groups of offspring (7) |
| RONDENNIS | The executive chairman of McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group, and team principal of McLaren, the group's Formula One team, until 2009 |
| SEPARATES | Moves apart, ... the groups |
