| Outer garment |
| Region near the Arctic Circle known for its reindeer |
| Barbarian in the seventh circle of the Inferno, per Dante |
| Confusing statements ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| Attend a party uninvited ... and a literal hint to five sets of circled letters |
| Whatever it takes ... as hinted at in the arrangements of black squares around the circled letters |
| Accoutered: Poet. |
| Knight's outerwear |
| Outermost |
| His last film was "Plan 9 from Outer Space |
| Outermost part |
| With "a," someone undesirable ... and what's found in the circled letters? |
| Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods |
| Angelic circlet |
| Agrarian structure, and a hint to the circled letters |
| Cryptographers' successes (and what can be found in the circles in this puzzle's long answers) |
| Cartoony yell if your butt's on fire and you're running in circles |
| Abode north of the Arctic Circle |
| A train might circle one |
| Circles overhead? |
| Agrarian outerwear? |
| Accouter anew |
| Circle-drawing instruments |
| Moslem woman's voluminous outer garment |
| Actress whose character went to outer space in 1997's "Contact": 2 wds. |
| How to decide which one of the three circled squares to fill in |
| Biological sequence, or what you'll find in the circled letters |
| Accouters anew |
| First light ... or a phenomenon suggested by this puzzle's seven sets of circled letters? |
| Angelic circles |