| OMERTA | Code of silence practised by criminal organisations such as the Mafia; from Italian dialect, 'humility' (6) |
| GENEROSUS | Nobilis, non humili gente natus, magnanimus |
| QUANGOS | Note attempt to annul endless external organisations such as the NHS (7) |
| THRONG | Personnel detained by criminal organisation, the mob (6) |
| RAVIOLI | Name, thought to derive from Italian dialect for "little turnips", for small stuffed envelopes of pasta (7) |
| QUANGO | Organisation such as the Planning Inspectorate, British Council or DVLA |
| COMMISSIONER | Runs 18 across for The Mafia from hospital ward (12) |
| THEMOB | Informal term for the Mafia or other criminal organisations (3,3) |
| MAFIOSI | Turns up, half the famine is around old institute overlooking criminal organisations (7) |
| MAFIA | Criminal organisation's aim to take in footballers all round? |
| GHETTO | This word is derived from the Italian dialect form gheto, "foundry," which refers to the Venetian island where Jews were forced to live during the 16th century. The English term came into use by 1611. |
| UNIFORMS | Distinctive clothes worn by members of an organisation, such as schoolchildren (8) |
| TELCO | Organisation such as BT or Tesco having change of heart? (5) |
| CAMPANOLOGY | Art such as that practised by Quasimodo in the belfry of The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame (11) |
| INITIATE | To accept new members into an organisation such as a club, through often secret ceremonies (8) |
| THRUSH | The international criminal organisation and traditional enemy of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, agents of The Man From UNCLE |
| LOMBARDIC | See mass of literary poet of Northern Italian dialect |
| CROP | Type of rotation practised by kitchen gardeners to avoid the build-up of soil problems (4) |
| DIANETICS | Set of pseudoscientific ideas and practices invented by L Ron Hubbard and practised by followers of Scientology |
| MIGRATION | The seasonal change of habitat as practised by birds and other animals (9) |
