| RECIT | French literary term for a book's narrative, as opposed to its dialogue; the novel consisting largely of such an account; or, in music, a swell organ (5) |
| TEAR | Tragic narrative as wally thrown in river? (4-6) |
| JERKER | Tragic narrative as wally thrown in river? (4-6) |
| CLASSIC | General term for a book considered timeless with established value, such as Emma, Vanity Fair, The Wind in the Willows or Catch-22 (7) |
| OUTOFPRINT | Publishing term for a book that;s hard to buy now (3,2,5) |
| INTRO | Short word for a book's preface (5) |
| TITLEPAGE | Place for a book's name |
| SIDE | Long edge, position or surface to the left or right of an area, object or person, as opposed to its top or bottom; a page; a slope of a hill; a team; or, a television channel (4) |
| FLOW | A current, such as the rise or advancing of a tide, as opposed to its ebb; or, by extension, any continuous or fluent stream of something, such as people, progress, wine or words (4) |
| BEN | Scots word for the inner or better room of a cottage, as opposed to its outer "but"; or, a peak, such as Nevis (3) |
| WIDTH | The extent from side to side of something, such as a swimming-pool, as opposed to its length (5) |
| DUCK | The female of the Aylesbury, mallard, teal or eider as opposed to its male counterpart the drake (4) |
| RUNNEL | A literary term for a small stream (6) |
| EBB | The receding motion of the tide out to sea, as opposed to its advancing flow inland; or, any gradual decline (3) |
| TOWN | Settlement larger than a village; or, its permanent residents, as opposed to its collective university "gown" (4) |
| BACKLIST | A publisher's inventory of older books still available in print, as opposed to its forthcoming titles (8) |
| SAGA | Originating from the Norse for "what is said", what is the literary term for any of the medieval Icelandic prose narratives? (4) |
| TRISTESSE | Literary term for sadness, from French; a title given to Chopin's Etude Op. 10, No. 3 (1833) (9) |
| CINCTURE | Literary term for a girdle or belt (8) |
| COFFERS | Literary term for a store of money (7) |
