| INSECRET | At home, tight-knit group pens note privately? (2,6) |
| RHYMING | Group pens short song having poetic features (7) |
| CELL | Tight-knit group to handle broadcast (4) |
| CADRE | Daughter put in charge in tight-knit group (5) |
| SECTOR | Men trailing tight-knit group in field of operations (6) |
| COVERT | Religious education in tight-knit group concealed (6) |
| SECRET | Religious education in tight-knit group concealed (6) |
| ASPECT | Look in a tight-knit group acquiring power (6) |
| SELLOUT | Betray tight-knit group, we hear, on strike (4,3) |
| HARDSELL | Aggressive promotion from unyielding, tight-knit group, we hear (4,4) |
| TUMULT | Part of body, tight-knit group, caught out in commotion (6) |
| STICKINSECT | Remain in tight-knit group to see very thin creature? (5,6) |
| SELLSHORT | Betray tight-knit group, we hear, with former Labour minister (4,5) |
| PHALANX | Aim to traverse heart of Sahara with cross tight-knit group (7) |
| THINKTANK | Show appreciation entertaining tight knit group of specialists |
| INSECT | Cricket, perhaps, favoured by extremely tight-knit group (6) |
| SUSPECT | Dodgy tight-knit group surrounds us quietly (7) |
| ASPECTS | Power is kept by a tight-knit group's particular features (7) |
| CLAN | Tight-knit group |
| ESPRITDECORPS | The tight-knit group spirit of the body according to the French (6,2,5) |
