| Bassets and spaniels |
| Attend a party uninvited ... and a literal hint to five sets of circled letters |
| Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods |
| Org. that sets law school standards |
| Assets minus liabilities |
| Mame's corsets |
| Nineteenth-century stage genre involving watery sets |
| Ancestors of the present-day Ossets |
| First light ... or a phenomenon suggested by this puzzle's seven sets of circled letters? |
| Assets and liabilities |
| Fabergé-egg insets |
| Sets forth thoroughly |
| What sets a straphanger on autopilot? |
| Beagles and bassets |
| Liquidates one's assets, with "in |
| Having more liabilities than assets |
| And Venus sets __ Mercury can rise": Pope |
| Afire with desire |
| Like some assets and smiles |
| Assets-and-liabilities statement |
| Landlord's assets: Abbr. |
| Some savers' assets |
| Angle irons graphically represented by four sets of black squares in this grid, and by letter formations starting in the four longest answers |
| Jewelry insets |
| Contents of some closets |
| Sets of doctrines |
| For whom Safire wrote the words "nattering nabobs of negativism |
| 1950s innovation that replaced black-and-white sets: 2 wds. |
| Book of inlets and insets |
| Afire |