| ONTHEBRAIN | Another in work clutching book obsessively (2,3,5) |
| RUMINATING | Thinking obsessively, over |
| PAPERBAG | Appear drunk clutching book (German) in this carrier? (5,3) |
| RABBINATE | Israeli PM clutching book took in Jewish master' s tenure |
| GAZEBO | Look old, clutching book in summerhouse (6) |
| HANDBRAKETURN | Clutching book, husband and cad go for a spin in vehicle (9,4) |
| TWINBED | Curled up clutching book - here? (4,3) |
| ORBITED | Frantic editor clutching book went round |
| OBSERVANT | Devout old maid perhaps clutching book |
| DEPARTMENTALISE | Go to dinner, say, clutching book - one's first experience of split up (15) |
| EBBED | Clutching books, English editor went out (5) |
| MOTOWN | * Cut down clutching books |
| STALKER | One obsessively follows speech in sermon, half cut (7) |
| CROSSWORDADDICT | One who sits obsessively writing letters in square (9,6) |
| PRURIENT | Obsessively indecent type produces pressure on Russia to find individual in Split (8) |
| WASHHERHANDS | In 5.1, the Doctor and Gentlewoman have watched Lady Macbeth wander the halls the last two nights talking to herself. What else do they see her obsessively do? |
| DWELT | ___ on (thought obsessively about) |
| ANIMAL | I'm interrupting obsessively ordered creature (6) |
| DOTED | Loved obsessively, ... on |
| FETISHES | Rituals followed obsessively (8) |
