| OPTS | Chooses work beginning and ending in tears (4) |
| SCHOOLYEAR | Beginning and ending in September, hot amid less hot - yes, inside - so it does (6,4) |
| AITCHES | Characters beginning and ending in Harwich (7) |
| CATS | Which show was Broadway's longest running, starting in 1987 and ending in 2006? (4) |
| ASIA | It is vast, endless, starting from Istanbul and ending in Siberia! (4) |
| FEES | Fixed charges for the beginning and ending of festivities (4) |
| TUBE | Railway network coming from Bath and ending in Ilfracombe |
| PINE | Long number that's secret and ending in three? |
| ZOLA | Beginning and ending of original article by unknown writer |
| MAZE | Pencil game with a beginning and ending |
| DAYS | Too soon to say parliamentary motion's ending in tears (5,4) |
| IGOR | Stravinsky perhaps has one work beginning in “Rite” |
| CEES | Beginning and ending of every classic? |
| OPUS | Work beginning for office: drink up! |
| POTS | Busted loop perhaps and good for starter and ending on 4 (6,4) |
| CAGY | Keeps it close to one's chest in introduction and ending to Cairo Trilogy (4) |
| AMIS | Kingsley, author of the novels Lucky Jim and Ending Up (4) |
| GREENEYED | Showing envy and gluttony, encompassing mounting lust and ending in pride (5-4) |
| SCREED | Writing beginning and ending of chapter for inclusion in issue (6) |
| BEQUEATH | Leave beginning and ending off second novel, perhaps, set in Roman city |
