Crossword clues for answer group.AnswerCluePANELAnswer group.PANELGroup that answers questions at a conferencePANELGroup that might answer your questionsHORNSECTIONTooting orchestra group (In this answer, note letters 1-3 and 5-6)STRINGENSEMBLESChamber groups ... and the answers to starred clues?ITTEAMExpert computer operations group ... to which the answers to starred clues belong?FIFTHWith 45-Down, subversive groups ... or what the answers in the shaded squares comprise?DIPLOMATICCORPS*Ambassador's group (note every starred answer's initials!)FORMLETTERSImpersonal notes ... or what four groups of this puzzle's answers do (totaling 11 words)CLASSACTIONGroup lawsuit ... and what each answer to a starred clue is?INNERCIRCLESInfluential groups, and what each of the answers to starred clues containsCOMMONAREAGroup space, and a hint to the answers to starred cluesBOYZIIMENOn Bended Knee group, or a hint to the starred answers' first three lettersBARBERSHOPWith 65-Across, a cappella group, and what the starts of the answers to starred clues compriseSWIMWith 71-Across, extracurricular group concerned with the starts of the answers to starred cluesNBAHoop group hidden inside this puzzle's three longest answersOURGANGOld group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member ofSEALSElite Navy group that's fittingly camouflaged in the four longest answers in this puzzleBARBERSHOPWith 63-Across, singing group ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the four starred cluesCOVERBANDSTribute groups, or a hint to what bookends the starred answersSANTASREINDEERYuletide group with members found at the end of the answers to the starred entriesSEVENSEASGlobal group, and a hint to the starts of the starred answersBREAKWith 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the shaded squares literally do in the answers to the starred cluesSTIRUPDRAMACreate tension in a group, and a direction that was followed when forming the answer to each starred clue?INNERCIRCLESmall, influential group ... and a hint to the word hidden in each answer to a starred clueCOVERBANDSTribute groups, or a four-part hint to the starred clues' answersPAPASHalf of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answersMAMASHalf of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answersMARINECORPSSemper fi group ... and a phonetic hint to the middles of the starred clues' answersPLUMBERS'70s covert White House intelligence group ... and, in a more conventional sense, a hint to the starts of the answers to starred cluesPANELDiscussion group, and a word that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers
