Possible Clues:

• Privileged few entertaining first of representatives, little time for gathering
• Season's yield
• Produce mostly stiff undergarment
• Government ultimately behind the privileged few — about right, one's gathered
• Contribution from wharves to seasonal collection
• Outcrop of what one 1 down
• Perhaps outcrop of underwear at last
• Seasonal activity
• Gathering of crop
• The gathering of crops