| CAHIER | French word for a notebook, journal or exercise book (6) |
| CARNET | French word for a notebook; a booklet of tickets/transport coupons; or, a customs permit authorising a motorist to cross a certain frontier (6) |
| SPIRAL | Shape of a winding staircase, a coiled device for binding a notebook or the helical structure of DNA (6) |
| EXAMEN | Exercise book, last word (6) |
| PEDANT | Scholar makes notes in exercise book (6) |
| GOSPEL | Return record featuring small exercise book (6) |
| DIGEST | Compact journal or magazine consisting of abridged news articles, literary extracts etc; or, the Justinian compendium of Roman law, also called the Pandects (6) |
| TABLET | The first sailor allowed a notebook (6) |
| PRIMER | Exercise book (6) |
| PHOEBE | Girl's exercise book securing house point |
| SWEATY | Showing effects of heat or exercise (6) |
| PEYOTE | Exercise books you collected for native of Mexico |
| PEBBLE | Exercise books on cutting good rock (6) |
| LAPTOP | Small portable computer - manufacturers also call it a notebook |
| DIARY | A personal journal or memoir, such as that written by Samuel Pepys or Francis Kilvert; a book for keeping such a record; or, a type of gossip column in a newspaper |
| HILROY | Big name in school exercise books on which the covers have a silhouette of the map of Canada |
| PHYSIO | Treatment using massage or exercise (colloq.) |
| PENTUP | Exercise books at college held back |
| SCRIBBLER | Informal word for a hack, journo, pen-pusher or other writer; part of a wool-carding machine; or, Canadian dialect for a jotter or a notebook (9) |
| REPENT | Express regret about exercise books |
