- GALA
- Big bash
- Big party
- Festive
- Dressy event
- Extravaganza
- Opening night affair
- Wingding
- Big do
- Fancy ball
- Met ___ (major fashion event)
- Met museum event to be chaired in 2016 by Idris Elba, Jonathan Ive, Taylor Swift, and Anna Wintour
- Annual Met event
- Big celebration
- Lavish party
- Apple variety
- Benefit, often
- Big ball
- Charity event
- Huge shindig
- Inaugural ball, e.g.
- Post-awards ceremony party
- Red carpet event
- Ball
- Fundraising party
- Star-studded fete
- Do for revelers
- Fancy party
- Festive affair
- Party on a grand scale
- Big affair
- Lavish shindig
- Festive, as an event
- Type of performance
- Glitzy party
- Fancy do
- Festive occasion
- What an afterparty may follow
- One may be a benefit
- What may require formal dress
- Do for a benefit, maybe
- Festive celebration
- Festive fete
- Kind of performance
- Shindig
- Glittering ball
- Celebration
- Black tie affair
- Benefit event
- Black-tie affair, e.g.
- Grand party
- Inaugural ball, for one
- Merry party
- Splashy party
- Big benefit
- Black-tie blowout
- Fundraiser, often
- Grand celebration
- Jacket-and-tie event
- Spectacle
- Festive party
- Big shindig
- Festive gathering
- Major function
- Extravagant affair
- Extravagant party
- Festive function
- Many a Super Bowl party
- Splendid celebration
- Ritzy reception
- Empire alternative
- __ Performance: Tudor ballet
- ___Performance, Tudor ballet
- Special performance
- Festival
- Festivity
- Showy
- Fete
- Blowout of a party
- Oscar after-party, e.g.
- Elaborate party
- Posh party
- Inaugural event
- Many an Oscar party
- Place to see gowns and tuxes
- Big event
- Festive event
- Fund-raising dinner, often
- Jacket-and-tie affair
- Jamboree
- Opening night after-party
- Red-carpet party
- Elaborate celebration
- Blowout, so to speak
- Major affair
- Dinner with donors
- Huge bash
- The Met __: annual NYC fundraising event
- Black-tie party
- Celebratory
- Fund-raiser, perhaps
- Apple choice
- Glitzy affair
- Ball, e.g.
- Bash
- Medium-sized apple
- Charity ball, say
- Many a fundraising party
- Party
- State dinner, e.g.
- Blowout
- Fabulous fest
- Black-tie event
- Festal
- Lavish gathering
- Sumptuous affair
- Fund-raising event
- Major bash
- Fund-raising dinner
- Swanky party
- Ball thrown by Lions
- Dressy fundraiser
- Elegant party
- Formal
- Formal party
- Fundraising fête
- Glamorous party
- Big formal party
- Fancy fundraiser
- Lavish celebration
- Festive apple variety
- Glamorous celebration
- Fund-raiser dinner
- McIntosh alternative
- August event
- Dressy occasion
- A lively celebration.
- Attended by festivities.
- Mardi Gras, for instance.
- In a holiday mood.
- Joyous.
- Like the Coronation plans.
- Fiesta.
- Carnival.
- Holiday event.
- ___ day.
- Lively celebration.
- Festive show.
- See 40 Across.
- Merry making.
- Merry.
- Dali's "Portrait of ___"
- Coronation, for one
- Kind of occasion
- Fun affair
- Type of occasion
- Party for celebrators
- Rio's carnival, e.g.
- Big blowout
- Sportive or showy
- Like the Mardi Gras
- Festive do
- Fest
- High time
- Black-tie charity event, maybe
- Chi-chi shindig
- Soiree, say
- Elegant bash
- Festal pomp
- In holiday spirits
- Mardi Gras, e.g.
- Grand old party
- Hollywood do
- Joyous celebration
- Society news
- The Oscars, e.g.
- Many a fund-raiser
- Black-tie dinner, say
- Event covered by paparazzi
- Big benefit, say
- Hearty party
- Many a charity event
- Certain ballroom event
- Certain fund-raiser
- Do for a V.I.P.?
- Many a party at Kennedy Center
- Kind of ball
- Pricey event
- Many an opening event
- Kennedy Center happening
- Ritzy shindig
- Fancy affair
- Occasion to dress up
- Fancy bash
- Lavish soiree
- Big to-do
- Black-tie affair, maybe
- Luxurious affair
- Event with a dress code
- Gig for a caterer, maybe
- Many a big charity event
- Many a fund-raising event
- Posh shindig
- Fancy-sounding apple cultivar
- Inaugural celebration
- Met highlight
- Swanky bash
- White House state dinner, e.g.
- Star-studded fundraiser, perhaps
- Posh bash
- Party with penguin suits
- It's a ball
- Met ___ (annual fashion event in New York)
- Fuji alternative
- Met ___ (event whose first-ever theme was "Fashion Plate")
- Annual event for a nonprofit, perhaps
- Black-tie affair, perhaps
- Star-studded affair
- Charity festivity
- Soiree
- A festive occasion
- Festive soiree
- Quite a party
- Like an inaugural ball
- Charity festivity, e.g.
- Big soiree
- Charity do
- Type of affair
- Benefit event, often
- Society-page fodder
- Fancy-schmancy do
- Big, splashy party
- Lavish bash
- Fancy whoop-de-do
- Formal event
- Formal whoop-de-do
- Fancy, festive function
- Festive-sounding apple
- Party that often has cocktails
- Ritzy party
- Apple with the highest production in the United States
- Black-tie bash
- Fundraising event, perhaps
- Grand shindig
- Most-grown apple variety in the U.S.
- Glitzy shindig
- Grand time
- Swinging event
- Occasion of tribute
- New Year's Eve bash, e.g.
- Testimonial dinner, perhaps
- Big-time celebration
- Charity festivity, perhaps
- Splendid affair
- Political fundraiser, often
- Big, dressy party
- Major party
- Lavish benefit event
- Post-Oscars party, say
- Lavish fundraiser, e.g.
- Glitzy gathering
- Lavish do
- Ritzy do
- White-tie affair
- Glitzy fundraiser
- Posh affair
- Met ___ (party also known as "fashion prom")
- Fancy reception
- Fundraising soiree
- Glitzy event
- Lavish fundraiser
- Ritzy celebration
- Fancy event
- Lavish affair
- Big occasion
- Formal function
- Benefit, perhaps
- Dressy affair
- Glitzy do
- Star-studded event
- Honeycrisp alternative
- Most produced apple variety in the U.S.
