| INSECRET | Religious education held by fashionable tight-knit group confidentially (2,6) |
| ASSUMED | Expected as Ed held maths problem (7) |
| HARDSELL | Aggressive promotion from unyielding, tight-knit group, we hear (4,4) |
| COVERT | Religious education in tight-knit group concealed (6) |
| SECRET | Religious education in tight-knit group concealed (6) |
| JETTISON | Black is embraced by fashionable people? Junk! (8) |
| BUCKSHEE | Free novel initially enjoyed by fashionable young man |
| INDECENT | Vulgar society rejected by fashionable family in the past? |
| INSECT | Cricket, perhaps, favoured by extremely tight-knit group (6) |
| ASPECTS | Power is kept by a tight-knit group's particular features (7) |
| LOGCABIN | Record picked up from airport, for example, by fashionable homely type with connections to the Woods |
| 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) |
| ASPECT | Look in a tight-knit group acquiring power (6) |
| SELLOUT | Betray tight-knit group, we hear, on strike (4,3) |
| 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) |
