| REGULATORS | Word for governors, supervisors, thermostats or other controlling or limiting people/things (10) |
| GOVERNMENT | Action or manner of controlling or regulating a state (10) |
| POSSESSIVE | Controlling or jealous (10) |
| NEST | Google thermostat, or a cozy home |
| CIRCUMSCRIPTION | The act of enclosing within bounds, or limiting (15) |
| PARAMETER | Defining or limiting factor a a mere part (anag.) (9) |
| SATURATIONPOINT | The stage at which no more people, things or ideas can be absorbed or accommodated (10,5) |
| NETHERMOST | Lowest part of engine thermostat |
| ENSEMBLE | From the French for "together", a group of actors, dancers, garments, musicians, systems or other coordinated set of people/things (8) |
| OCTET | From Latin for "eight", a group of eight bells, electrons, elves, instruments, lines of verse, milkmaids, mistletoe berries, musicians, performers or other people/things (5) |
| ISDEM | Pronoun, for or by the very same people/things |
| WRECKS | Word for ships destroyed at sea, thus ruined people/things generally (6) |
| STROPS | Strong on other people's things for sharpening acts of criticism |
| GANGS | Sets/bands of articles, children, criminals, delinquents, labourers, sockets, tools or other people/things of one kind which go together (5) |
| NOUN | Word identifying people, things, etc |
| ETAL | And other people/things (2,2) |
| LINE | Row of people, things or printed words (4) |
| SATRAPS | It's Sparta's turn for governors |
| OLIGARCHS | Chaos girl stirred up for governors |
| RULERS | Yardsticks for governors (6) |
