| SOCIETY | Meaning "companion", word for a community of people; or, an organised association (7) |
| FESTIVAL | A religious observance or abundant regale; a joyous celebration; a time of merrymaking or revelry; or, an organised season of concerts, films, operas or plays (8) |
| ECOSYSTEM | Coral reef, desert, freshwater, grassland, rainforest, tundra ... general word for a community of interacting organisms and their environment (9) |
| ASHRAM | What is a community of people, together for spiritual development (6) |
| CHORUS | A group of angels; or, an organised company of singers (6) |
| TRADEUNION | An organised association of workers (5,5) |
| GALERE | Word, used in Moliere's play Scapin the Schemer, for a terrible mess; a coterie of undesirable people; or, an unpleasant situation (6) |
| ETHOS | The distinctive spirit of a people or an era |
| THEHUMANANIMAL | People ... or an alternate title for this puzzle |
| CONVENT | Closed community of people, usually women, devoted to a religious life (7) |
| NUNNERY | Religious house of a community of nuns. (7) |
| BOHEMIA | A community of vagabonds and wanderers word craze |
| MOBSTER | A member of an organised group of violent criminals (7) |
| REGATTA | An organised series of races of yachts or rowing boats (7) |
| FANCLUB | An organised group of followers of a well-known person, group or team (3,4) |
| MONASTERY | A cloister for a community of coenobites, sometimes with scriptoria in medieval examples (9) |
| BLUEMANGROUP | Ensemble mistaken for a community of depressed males, on "Arrested Development" |
| GESTALT | An organised unit and salt get the worse for wear (7) |
| APPROVE | Give the green light - it's an organised pop rave (7) |
| JERICHO | Jane missing an organised choir in Palestinian town (7) |
