- BRASS
- Copper and zinc alloy
- High-ranking military officers
- Military material?
- Self-assurance
- Army bigwigs
- Military leaders
- Pentagon figures
- Top military
- Doorknob metal
- Chutzpah
- Marching band, largely
- Orchestra section
- Effrontery
- Higher-ups
- Military bigwigs
- Base runners?
- Very important people
- 76 trombones, e.g.
- Pentagon people, informally
- Tuba or trombone
- Trumpets and tubas, e.g.
- Audacity
- General assembly?
- Heavy metal
- Heavy metal alloy
- Epitome of boldness
- Alloy of copper and zinc
- Military big shots
- Army officials
- Tubas and such
- Bigwigs
- Officials
- Section in a pit
- Type of band
- Military honchos
- Upstairs group
- Group giving orders
- Trumpets and trombones, e.g.
- Military group
- Source of many orders
- Leadership
- Top officers
- Section that doesn't include the sax, surprisingly
- Top __
- Military officials
- Impudence
- Metallic alloy
- Army VIPs
- Trumpets and trombones
- Copper alloy
- Button material
- Switchplate metal
- Tuba metal
- Word before band or ring
- Band section
- Copper-zinc alloy
- Metal in tubas
- Heavy alloy
- Trumpet metal
- Material for a bugle
- Metal used for tubas
- Orchestral section
- Battle bosses
- Alloy used for tubas
- Tuba material
- Generals and such
- Some winds
- Bold self-assurance
- High-ranking officers, familiarly
- Copper plus zinc.
- ___ hat.
- Knavish attorney of "Old Curiosity Shop."
- Villain in "Old Curiosity Shop."
- Attorney in "Old Curiosity Shop."
- Part of an orchestra.
- Section of an orchestra.
- Trumpets or horns.
- Gold braid wearers.
- Occupants of Pentagon.
- Population of the Pentagon.
- Material of the French horn.
- Hat material.
- ___ band.
- ___ tacks (basic facts).
- Alloy.
- Yellowish metal.
- Metallic yellow.
- Reddish-yellow color.
- Yellow alloy.
- Metal for tacks.
- The makings of tacks.
- Military rank: Slang.
- Common alloy.
- Pentagon people.
- Tijuana ___.
- V.I.P.'s
- Generals, etc.
- Kind of knuckles
- Kind of band
- Metal for a monkey
- Pentagon feature
- Military V.I.P.'s
- Crust
- Word with hat or band
- Gold-braided ones
- High-ranking officers
- . . . putty, ___, an' PAint: Kipling
- Kind of ring or band
- Cheekiness
- Gall
- Army biggies
- Yellowish alloy
- Frank Norris book: 1921
- Nerve
- Word with knuckles or tacks
- Army honchos
- Bigwigs in uniforms
- Overbearing quality
- Pentagon material?
- Joint Chiefs, e.g.
- Military muckamucks
- Top dogs at 16-Across
- Pentagon bigwigs
- Word with tacks or knuckles
- Impudence of a Br. fool
- Military pooh-bahs
- Officers
- Authority figures
- Majors, e.g.
- Military muckety-mucks
- Copper + zinc
- Much of a marching band
- Pentagon V.I.P.s
- High-ranking figures, collectively
- Majors, say
- Audacious self-assurance
- Alloy of zinc and copper
- Dirty Dozen ___ Band
- Horn section
- New Orleans's Dirty Dozen ___ Band
- What the alloy Mannheim gold really is
- Word with band or hat
- Pentagon personnel
- Material for many a light fixture
- Word with ring or knuckles
- Word with top (army bigwigs)
- Bugle material
- Horn material
- Shiny doorknob material
- Trumpets and trombones, but not saxophones
- Instrumental alloy?
- Top guns
- 37 Down, e.g.
- Carousel's ring
- Bigwigs in uniform
- Word with "band" or "ring"
- Tubas and trombones
- Metal in a tuba
- Metal in a trumpet
- French horn metal
- Trumpets' section
- Big cheeses
- Pentagon powers
- Money, in British slang
- Zinc plus copper
- Cornet composition
- Generals and admirals
- Rich opportunity, figuratively
