| SCRUBBED | Cursed roughly about books being abandoned (8) |
| IGNORANT | I groan about books, being uneducated (8) |
| INTERRED | I was mistaken about books being buried (8) |
| AESTHETE | Art lover worried about book being incomplete (8) |
| DERELICT | Edward gets upset about historical object being abandoned (8) |
| DESERTED | Being abandoned can cause disturbed rest, indeed! (8) |
| PUTABOUT | Annoyed about a book being made available |
| CELERITY | Speed of book being put out by A-lister (8) |
| SCRAPPED | Fought being abandoned in a heap? |
| TUNELESS | Unlucky for being abandoned - harsh |
| THERIVER | Betrayed by short-lived wonder being abandoned (4,4,3,5) |
| SOLDDOWN | Betrayed by short-lived wonder being abandoned (4,4,3,5) |
| ADDENDUM | Sticky matter, new poetry book being sent back for late supplement? |
| WELLREAD | Like a popular book being highly educated (4-4) |
| AFFECTED | Pretentious cafe fed roughly about twenty at first (8) |
| STARLING | Grant is roughly about fifty and a flier (8) |
| EMPORIUM | Rum poem roughly about Italy's top large store (8) |
| ONTHEJOB | Refusal to promote model with explosive book, being busy (2,3,3) |
| SEMANTIC | Perhaps it means, roughly, about meaning |
| SERVANT | Raves about books being domestic (7) |
