| WHATANERD | "Do you read the encyclopedia for fun?" |
| KNOW | Dr. Seuss: "The more that you read, the more things you will ___" |
| FINEPRINT | "Education is when you read the ___; experience is what you get when you don't": Pete Seeger (4,5) |
| SIGN | "Do this, don't do that, can't you read the ___?" (1971 Five Man Electrical Band lyric) |
| EYEDOTS | They make you read the fine print, for short |
| ISSUE | 'Have you read the latest - of the newspaper?' |
| COPYCATS | Kittens: "Dogs, do you read us?" Puppy: "___. You're coming in loud and clear." |
| WORDSWORDSWORDS | Hamlet's reply to "What do you read, my lord?" |
| WORDS | Three times, Hamlet's response to "What do you read, my lord?" |
| THEME | This puzzle's has a bonus if you read the letters where the lovers cross in order by column |
| RICKROLLING | 2000s internet prank you'll fall victim to if you read the starts of answers to asterisked clues (11) |
| THREADBARE | Worn out, you read, the bather collapsed outside |
| SEEPS | Emerges as a leak when you read the footnote (5) |
| ISAW | Response to "Did you read on [such-and-such site]?" |
| SPLAT | Climbed mountains with temperature - did you read that in a comic? (5) |
| DEAR | Did you read how expensive they are! (4) |
| TOME | The Columbia Encyclopedia, for one |
| READJUSTS | Settles again to look at only the nineteenth part of the encyclopedia? |
| JOINEDAROCKBAND | What did the quarrier do for fun? |
| TONTOTOTOTOTOME | One volume in the Encyclopedia of Movie Pets and Sidekicks? |
