| PORTERHOUSEBLUE | Drink gets the pub down, which is novel (11,4) |
| LOCAL | The pub down the road (5) |
| VOCAL | Outspoken and against the pub down the road not opening |
| TOTHELIGHTHOUSE | Novel format for TS Eliot, though he is novel (2,3,10) |
| THESUNALSORISES | A newspaper muddles roles as is novel (3,3,4,5) |
| THEWAYWELIVENOW | A new vow, while yet fresh, is novel |
| APAIROFBLUEEYES | What Sinatra had is novel |
| TREASUREISLAND | Wealth is real estate, which is novel (8,6) |
| EMMA | West Ham player is flipping naked, which is novel (4) |
| UNHEARDOF | Novel found to contain a lot of compassion, which is novel (7-2) |
| FELL | Knock down, which is cruel (4) |
| POTBOILER | Bore pilot silly, which is novel |
| IVANHOE | Trump cut short meeting with prostitute, we hear, which is novel |
| UNCLETOMSCABIN | Drunk must conceal wine, which is novel |
| ANYHUMAN | Some try to embrace what we are ultimately about, which is novel (3,5,5) |
| REBECCA | Tossing caber around the city is novel (7) |
| MAISIE | What she knew is novel, but in France that is sequential (6) |
| AMERICAN | The quiet one is novel (8) |
| TITUSGROAN | Organ playing after the epistle is novel |
| VENICE | Very European city on the coast is novel's deadly location |