| Group of friends | 16 |
| Word with sewing or traffic | 27 |
| Word with inner or winner's | 31 |
| Vicious figure? | 15 |
| Tick-tack-toe entry | 19 |
| There's simply no end to it | 31 |
| Solzhenitsyn's "The First ___" | 44 |
| Sewing group | 12 |
| Rondure | 7 |
| Ring, geometrically | 19 |
| Plane figure | 12 |
| Oater wagon formation | 21 |
| It never ends | 13 |
| It may be vicious | 17 |
| Inner or dress | 14 |
| Group with a common bond | 24 |
| Go all around | 13 |
| Geometry shape | 14 |
| Friends, metaphorically | 23 |
| Bull's-eye, for one | 23 |
| Arctic ______ | 13 |
| 'O' shape | 17 |
| Emphasized, in a way | 20 |
| Prepared to land a plane | 24 |
| Your clique | 11 |
| Social network | 14 |
| Group you can trust | 19 |
| Close social group | 18 |
| Those in one's social network, say | 38 |
| Quakers in a ring? | 18 |
| One's close acquaintances | 29 |
| Group of people you can trust | 29 |
| Close associates, and a hint to this puzzle's highlighted squares | 69 |
| Clique, e.g. | 12 |
| One who gets around? | 20 |
| Round figures | 13 |
| Geometric shapes | 16 |
| Nice round figures | 18 |
| Venn diagram sets, usually | 26 |
| Sewing groups | 13 |
| Products of compasses | 21 |
| Batten down the hatches | 23 |
| Prepare for an attack | 21 |
| Anticipate trouble | 18 |
| Prepare for trouble | 19 |
| Prepare for an Indian attack | 28 |
| Hold down the fort | 18 |
| Defend against trouble | 22 |
| It may be closed or short | 25 |
| Roundabout journey | 18 |
| Lap | 3 |
| A short may break one | 21 |
| "Have oven, will travel" type? | 40 |
| Frontier-justice venue | 22 |
| Judicial venue | 14 |
| A breaker is designed to protect against it | 43 |
| Workshop machine | 16 |
| Workshop tool | 13 |
| Tabitha Babbitt's invention, approx. 1813 | 45 |
| Woodworking tool created by Tabitha Babbitt (1784-1853) | 55 |
| Entertainment | 13 |
| Barker's employer | 21 |
| Milieu for the Wallendas | 24 |
| Tent show | 9 |
| Tent entertainment | 18 |
| Ringlings' show | 19 |
| Piccadilly, for one | 19 |
| Piccadilly ___ | 14 |
| Media __ | 8 |
| It's pitched for a large audience | 37 |
| Event in a tent | 15 |
| Big-top event | 13 |
| Barnum & Bailey presentation | 32 |
| Like calliope music | 19 |
| Frenetic and showy | 18 |
| Glossy fabric | 13 |
| Glossy finish | 13 |
| Glazed fabric | 13 |
| Wax-glazed fabric | 17 |
| Wax, in French | 14 |
| Highly glazed fabric | 20 |
| Wax: Fr. | 8 |
| Wax, in France | 14 |
| High-glaze fabric finish | 24 |
| Glazed, waxy fabric finish | 26 |
| Glazed finish for fabrics | 25 |
| Glazed fabric finish | 20 |
| ___ du Soleil | 13 |
| __ du Soleil | 12 |
| Wispy clouds | 12 |
| Wispy white clouds | 18 |
| Plant tendrils | 14 |
| High, wispy clouds | 18 |
| Tendrils | 8 |
| High-altitude clouds | 20 |
| High clouds | 11 |
| Fleecy clouds | 13 |
| Cloud formations | 16 |
| They're no rainmakers | 25 |
| Sea-lily appendages | 19 |