| RESERVE | Book a table |
| PASSAGE | An alley; an extract from a book; a journey by air/sea; a section of a piece of music; or, the advance of time (7) |
| TALKING | ____ book, a recording of a literary work, especially for use by the blind (7) |
| GENESIS | Book a rock group (7) |
| HIPBONE | In book, a certain part of body (7) |
| REREADS | Enjoys a book a second time |
| ALMANAC | Book a girl can return (7) |
| LYDGATE | Troy Book, a 30,000-line translation of Guido delle Colonne's Trojan history (7) |
| SHANNON | Ireland's longest river; or, illustrator with Charles Ricketts of Oscar Wilde's book A House of Pomegranates (7) |
| BARONET | One's entitled to book a singer up |
| ORDINAL | Book a type of exam without uproar |
| SANDBAG | Drop round with book, a heavy weight |
| OMNIBUS | Book a coach |
| HYDRANT | Hardy rewrote book, 'A Source of Water' |
| AGASAGA | Book a great success ___ reprint almost complete (3,4) |
| BAMBINI | Book a car to transport British kids from Rome |
| FILLET | From "thread", a word for a narrow ribbon tied round the head originally, later a boned side of fish or slice of meat; a decorative line impressed on the cover of a book; a narrow piece of wood; or, a |
| SPINE | Heartwood of a tree; a quill of a hedgehog; a bound edge of a book; a series of vertebrae; or, courage (5) |
| METHOD | Set of instructions accompanying a list of ingredients in a cookery book; a technique in acting; or, a sequence in change ringing (6) |
| LEAF | A folio of a book; a botanical structure known in its embryonic form as a cotyledon; or, gold in the form of foil, used in gilding (4) |
