| 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) |
| SEARCHWARRANT | Permit authorising entry by police |
| OKAPI | Browser and peripherals missing from notebook: a pity |
| SURVEYOR | An overseer or supervisor; an inspector of something, such as buildings, land, roads or ships; a geodesist; or, a customs official (8) |
| RATIONCARD | Form with record of coupons or vouchers for restricted commodities (6,4) |
| REDEEM | Use as coupons or food stamps |
| CAHIER | French word for a notebook, journal or exercise book (6) |
| CARNEY | US festival customs permit time off on 4th of July |
| PANE | Word originally for a rag or a piece of cloth that later came to mean a division of a window or its sheet of glass; or, in philately, a page of stamps from a booklet (4) |
| 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) |
| SPIRAL | Shape of a winding staircase, a coiled device for binding a notebook or the helical structure of DNA (6) |
| TORAH | The teaching of early Jewish priests found in a booklet or a handbook (5) |
| WHATSINTHEBOXES | Question asked by a customs officer or a kid on Christmas ... with a hint to this puzzle's circled s |
| SCRATCHPAD | Mainly North American name for a notebook |
| TRACT | Booklet of a sort |
| TYPICALCASE | Prototype of all the others, as a customs officer sees it (7,4) |
| LOOSELEAF | John flees a sort of a notebook (5-4) |
| RECOILPAD | Flinch from a notebook - it softens the blow for shooters (6,3) |
| PAMPHLET | Small booklet of information |
| PROSPECTUS | Booklet of what's on offer |
