| MOLLFLANDERS | Fern, small and old, represented in novel (4,8) |
| DEGAS | Artist, small and old, got up (5) |
| BARNABYRUDGE | Barbed ray-gun represented in novel |
| WHODUNNIT | Hindu town represented in novel form (9) |
| CRUCIFIXIONS | If six occur in novel they are old ways of finishing off (12) |
| ENQUIRYAGENT | Private eye puts query in novel to a male (7,5) |
| OLDTESTAMENT | Numbers with other books showing modest talent in novel form (3,9) |
| SPEEDSKATING | Holding short ski, edge past in novel winter sport |
| HOONEDOMERTA | Use this chemical compound next in novel experiment |
| HOMINGPIGEON | Homer's hard poem going in novel |
| ELIASCANETTI | 1981 Nobel Literature Prize winner cites a tale in novel (5,7) |
| ANTAGONISTIC | A giant Scot in novel is hostile (12) |
| GOBBLEDEGOOK | Local mouthy type showed the way, for example, in novel with obscure language (12) |
| EMMA | A switch for the writer: old woman and young woman in novel |
| ELMER | Gantry in American fiction (and in novel merchandising) |
| ESSAY | "History begins in novel and ends in ____" (Thomas Macaulay) |
| SCARLET | A Study in -; novel in which Arthur Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (7) |
| NORTHANDSOUTH | Old PM tackled issues in novel (5,3,5) |
| REBECCA | Old instrument accountant used in novel (7) |
| KANGAROO | Mother and son in novel by Lawrence (8) |
