| SICKEN | Dickens novel without a frontispiece creates revolt (6) |
| REBELLION | No beer? Ill, about to create revolt (9) |
| STRAND | Frontispiece, that's read when spaced out, in maroon? (6) |
| NONEWS | Boy returns with novel without an update (2,4) |
| CLANCY | Tom ___, author of the novels Without Remorse and Red Rabbit (6) |
| VANITYFAIR | 1848 novel by William Thackeray subtitled A Novel without a Hero (6,4) |
| FRONTS | Frontispieces |
| HERO | "A Novel Without a ___" ("Vanity Fair" subtitle) |
| ADAIR | Gilbert ___, author of "A Void," a 290-page novel without the letter E |
| BOO | Show disapproval of a novel without an ending (3) |
| LAISSEZFAIRE | Serializes a fine novel, without trying to direct |
| AHERO | Thackeray's "Vanity Fair: A Novel Without ___" |
| ZINGMATILDA | Pan a Dahl novel without Disney? |
| DUMBWAITER | Write bad novel without hesitation in lift (4,6) |
| PEREC | Georges who wrote "A Void" (novel without the letter "E") |
| BOOK | Big test to write, perhaps, but read like a facile frontispiece? (4,4) |
| OPEN | Big test to write, perhaps, but read like a facile frontispiece? (4,4) |
| ATLAS | Figure on the frontispiece of Mercator's 1595 work |
| CHIEFINSPECTOR | Top cop in chapter with different frontispiece (5,9) |
| ONYX | Stone cross, with ebony end as frontispiece (4) |
