| KEYNES | Economist's way of describing major speeches without books (6) |
| ADLIBBER | He makes speeches without notes (2-6) |
| DRESSES | Covers speeches without commercial introduction (7) |
| RATIONS | Supplies speeches without introduction (7) |
| MODERN | _ classics, a more contemporary way of describing cars like the MX-5 (6) |
| ARISTA | Is art a way of describing such a bristle-like appendage? (6) |
| CICERO | Roman orator who said "A room without books is like a body without a soul" |
| NOTARY | Legal official in particular region never without books? |
| IMPEDE | Block rogue editor and be without book (6) |
| BOYISH | Youthful hobby is wrong without book (6) |
| ASSIST | Help string player without book (6) |
| ARABIC | Language bill, teacher allowed without book (6) |
| DEVOUT | Pious English vicar's first cast into uncertainty without book (6) |
| BONVIVANT | Nice way of describing of a hedonist? (3,6) |
| EVINCE | Show Cable follows lead of economists? (6) |
| SOUPEDUP | Informal way of describing a performance-modified car (6-2) |
| PARITY | From the Latin for "equal", a word among economists for equivalence in currency/rate of exchange, price, purchasing power, value or wages (6) |
| RUSSET | Colourful type from USSR shot leaders, economists, Trotskyists (6) |
| BOXER | Way of describing crater? Rocky, say (5) |
| NEWYEARSEVE | Another way of describing 31 December (3,5,3) |
