| TROPES | Figurative expressions translated by 11, 21, and 27, say, apart from first page (6) |
| JAZZ | A boring judge axes 9 from 1 and 27, say |
| IDIOMS | Figurative expressions |
| CROSSEDSWORDS | Disagreed with editors cutting things like this ___ 1 and 10, 5 and 11, 21 and 24, 23 and 26 (7,6) |
| METAPHORS | Came across a quiet, tailless horse in figurative expressions (9) |
| COMINGUPROSES | Turning out great or the words hidden backward in 4- 11- 21- and 26-Down? |
| LOLLOP | Run in a floppy sort of way to remove first page from sweet (6) |
| ROUSTS | Stirs up French author tearing out first page, then second (6) |
| MOPTOP | Discontented maestro instructs one to turn over first page, making messy cut |
| KNIGHT | Sir Gawain and the Green -; poem written some 600 years ago by an unknown author that was translated by Simon Armitage in 2007 (6) |
| SPHERE | Globe has Shakespeare's first page present |
| MAGPIE | Manuscript's first page rewritten about one hoarder |
| PSALMS | Sacred songs such as John Fisher's translated by Katherine Parr and published in 1544, or those included in the Old Testament (6) |
| NEURAL | Rune translated by a student of the nervous system (6) |
| YENTOB | Albany note translated by presenter of BBC1's Imagine... (4,6) |
| ANNEAL | Fictitious rune translated by a novice (6) |
| LITANY | Prayer in Latin translated by unknown character (6) |
| LANDOR | Victorian poet translated by Arnold (6) |
| SHERPA | Phrase translated by guide (6) |
| STALIN | Latin's translated by former leader (6) |
