| NABOKOV | Author's new volume, including a book revised (7) |
| COLIC | Small volume, including oil, fixed stomach pain (5) |
| BERRY | A soft fruit such as the red variety traditionally used to make an accompaniment for turkey; or, a former GBBO judge and author of a number of cookery volumes including Christmas Collection (5) |
| BLABBERMOUTH | Given book, revised blurb at home - one has no discretion |
| BOONDOCKS | Remote place for volumes including new document |
| NIRVANA | New volume seized by Islamic republic, a religious state |
| ENGRAVE | Agree with new volume composed by artist who can impress (7) |
| PYNCHON | US author's new chapter to replace third in Snake (7) |
| ANIMATO | Orchestra's lively giving out new volume when Mantovani is playing |
| EREWHON | Satire based partly on its author's New Zealand sojourn |
| INVITE | Request that is including new volume with it (6) |
| NOVEL | New volume in time for Christmas presents |
| TURGENEV | Author's new venture penning introduction to guidebook |
| NOVELIST | Author's new "first" |
| SNAPPER | Word for a clutch of things including a biting turtle, an Irish baby, a paper banger, a party cracker, a photographer, a redfish or a whiplash attachment (7) |
| EMERALD | A virid gem whose name is used to denote other green things including a dove, a dragonfly, a hummingbird, Ireland, a mango and a moth (7) |
| FORSTER | Author of novels including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India who was a member of a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles (7) |
| HOLBEIN | Artist whose The Ambassadors depicts Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve with items including a globe, anamorphic skull and a lute with a broken string (7) |
| HOBBEMA | Dutch painter of sunlit woodlands and tree scenes including A Road Winding Past Cottages, A Stream by a Wood and The Avenue at Middelharnis (7) |
| PREFECT | Name given to any of various officials placed in authority over others, including a magistrate in ancient Rome, head of a department in France or a senior school pupil (7) |
