| Attend a party uninvited ... and a literal hint to five sets of circled letters |
| Bassets and spaniels |
| Attach securely, as metal plating |
| Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods |
| Securely fixed |
| (In) partnership |
| Org. that sets law school standards |
| Mame's corsets |
| Assets minus liabilities |
| Nineteenth-century stage genre involving watery sets |
| First light ... or a phenomenon suggested by this puzzle's seven sets of circled letters? |
| Ancestors of the present-day Ossets |
| Assets and liabilities |
| Securely fastened |
| Butt (in) |
| Abounding (in) |
| Fabergé-egg insets |
| Sets forth thoroughly |
| Place securely |
| Beagles and bassets |
| What sets a straphanger on autopilot? |
| Fixes securely (in) |
| Traded (in) |
| Liquidates one's assets, with "in |
| Join securely |
| Attach securely, in a way |
| Tune (in) |
| Add (in), as music to a film |
| Having more liabilities than assets |
| Securely hide |