Related Clues:

• High-profile group
• Inclination Republican has to abandon education
• Red carpet bunch
• Like the Miller beer logo
• First invitees
• Literary lion: poet, ultimately using oblique style?
• Elite invitees
• Leaning; out of plumb
• Elite names in show biz
• Inclined to upset pals, one being heartless
• "He's making ___, checking it ..."
• Group of primo invitees
• Like an escalator, and, aptly, like the six-letter word that begins where 40-Across ends
• Not completely vertical
• Not vertical or horizontal