| LAROUSSE | French encyclopaedia and classic culinary reference book, first published in 1938 (8,13) |
| GASTRONOMIQUE | French encyclopaedia and classic culinary reference book, first published in 1938 (8,13) |
| WISDEN | - Cricketers' Almanack, reference book first published in 1864 (6) |
| PAYLOAD | Take the science out of encyclopaedias and use it to fill the rocket (7) |
| GASTRONOMY | Subject written about in a culinary reference book by Larousse (10) |
| THEHIGHWAYCODE | UK road safety manual and rule book first published in 1931 |
| THEHIGHWAY | & 5D UK road safety manual and rule book first published in 1931 (3,7,4) |
| SNOWMAN | The ___, Raymond Briggs book first published in 1978 |
| ZAP | Comic book first published in 1968 |
| BEANO | The ---, children's comic first published in 1938 (5) |
| NAUSEA | Jean-Paul Sartre novel first published in 1938 |
| GONE | "___ with the Wind". old and classic book and movie title (4) |
| WHITE | T.H., author who wrote the Arthurian novel The Sword In The Stone published in 1938 (5) |
| REBECCA | Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier published in 1938 (7) |
| HOMAGE | ____ To Catalonia, George Orwell's Spanish Civil War memoir, published in 1938 (6) |
| EPITAPH | ____ For A Spy, novel by Eric Ambler published in 1938 (7) |
| ISIDORE | Saint and scholar who compiled the 20-book encyclopaedia Etymologiae, which includes subjects ranging from agriculture and angels to arithmetic and astronomy (7) |
| RAMBO | David Morrell's book, First Blood, introduced this character created in film by Sylvester Stallone |
| THESSALONIANS | Book, first of several in the hairdressing establishment belonging to Scotsman? (13) |
| NOVEL | Book first of vacations in time for Christmas |
