| Upper crust types | 17 |
| Top groups | 10 |
| Top echelons | 12 |
| They're in | 14 |
| Ruling classes | 14 |
| Power groups | 12 |
| Picas' alternatives | 23 |
| Media ___ (NPR and PBS, to Bill O'Reilly) | 45 |
| Influential groups | 18 |
| Highest classes | 15 |
| High-status groups | 18 |
| High-and-mighty sorts | 21 |
| High society types | 18 |
| High classes | 12 |
| High and mighties | 17 |
| Groups with influence | 21 |
| GOP bogeymen | 12 |
| Favored groups | 14 |
| Exclusive groups | 16 |
| Exalted groups | 14 |
| Entitled groups | 15 |
| Carriage trade groups | 21 |
| Best classes | 12 |
| Beaux mondes | 12 |
| Upper-class rule | 16 |
| Undemocratic tendency | 21 |
| Snobbishness | 12 |
| Snob's doctrine | 19 |
| Clique's attitude | 21 |
| Antidemocratic belief | 21 |
| Theory espoused by Plato | 24 |
| Snobbish stance | 15 |
| Rule by a select group | 22 |
| Edith Wharton theme | 19 |
| Aristocratic rule | 17 |
| Aristocratic practice | 21 |
| "Democracy is the fig leaf of ___" (Florence King) | 60 |
| Nose-in-the-air type | 20 |
| High-hat | 8 |
| High-hatter | 11 |
| Nose-in-air type | 16 |
| Snobby | 6 |
| Persnickety sort | 16 |
| Snobby sort | 11 |
| Snobbish sort | 13 |
| One who puts on airs | 20 |
| Supporter of the 1%, say | 24 |
| Someone with clearly better taste in everything than you (duh) | 62 |
| Snob of a sort | 14 |
| Person above it all | 19 |
| Oligarch's relative | 23 |
| Oligarch | 8 |
| Not identifying with the hoi polloi | 35 |
| Like many a social climber | 26 |
| He advocates the regime of the cream | 36 |
| Believer in rule by the upper crust | 35 |
| Aristocrat for one | 19 |
| Snobs | 5 |
| Nose-in-the-air types | 21 |
| Those of select groups | 22 |
| They think they're special | 30 |
| They don't associate with the hoi polloi | 44 |
| They believe in ruling classes | 30 |
| Some hipsters | 13 |
| Hoi polloi scorners | 19 |
| Guillotine candidates, once | 27 |
| Contemptuous crowd | 18 |
| Believers in rule by superior people | 36 |
| Cure-all | 8 |
| Nostrum | 7 |
| Healing potion | 14 |
| ___ of life | 11 |
| Magical drink | 13 |
| Magic potion | 12 |
| Word on a bottle of snake oil | 29 |
| Alchemist's concoction | 26 |
| Snake oil | 9 |
| Patent medicine | 15 |
| Magical liquid from the Greek for "dry" | 49 |
| Cure-all potion | 15 |
| Alchemist's cure-all | 24 |
| Magic medicine | 14 |
| Word on a bottle of "snake oil" | 41 |
| Sovereign remedy | 16 |
| Snake-oil salesman's sale | 29 |
| Snake-oil salesman's offering | 33 |
| Snake oil salesman's sale | 29 |
| Snake oil salesman's bottleful | 34 |
| Quack's solution | 20 |
| Quack's concoction | 22 |
| Mystical remedy | 15 |
| Miracle drink | 13 |
| Medicine-show staple | 20 |
| Medicine-show purchase | 22 |
| Medicine that's not all it's promised to be | 51 |
| Medicine show purchase | 22 |
| Medicine show product | 21 |
| Medicine show offering | 22 |
| Medicine man's bottleful | 28 |
| Love Potion No. 9, say | 22 |