1. clients or customers that frequent a place.   clientele   cohorts   bureaucrat   cabal   Hint Half-n-half Clue   2. ghost or appearance of startling kind.   apparition   autocrat   centurion   charlatan   Half-n-half Clue   3. procession or company of riders.   adherent   cynosure   ascetic   cavalcade   Half-n-half Clue   4. one who abandons one's religion or party.   cavalcade   aristocrat   apostate   crone   Half-n-half Clue   5. lawyer entitled to practise in superior courts.   bevy   arbiter   aggressor   barrister   Half-n-half Clue   6. person who questions knowledge of God.   agnostic   apparition   convict   conscript   Half-n-half Clue   7. select circle of persons with common interests.   adherent   coterie   cardiologist   anthropologist   Half-n-half Clue