Possible Clues:

• It's good for absolutely nothing [hunh]
• More than a brawl
• Type of cry or paint
• Word with "dance" or "party"
• Protest subject
• General assembly
• Greenback from Mars?
• Sounds as if there's no piece of it cooked up here
• Desert Storm, e.g
• What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues?