Related Clues:

• Cabal's plans
• It sometimes thickens
• 'The ___ thickens'
• Novelist's concern
• Paranoiac's worry
• Part of a pitch
• Novelist's thread
• Novel idea
• Mark on a graph
• Contrive
• An author might give it away
• Piece of land
• Surroundings
• Parcel
• Place to build