| GARDENERS | Good readers have new novel about those tending the plants, etc (9) |
| VIOLONE | New novel about one old music maker (7) |
| MBAS | Many Forbes readers have them |
| ASL | What manual readers have learned? |
| LECTOR | You need to find a good reader among your electors (6) |
| ALABASTER | Material for sculptor in the style of one tending the roast? (9) |
| GARDENING | Growing concern for those tending to plot (9) |
| VALKYRIES | Those tending to the fallen warriors called einherjar, in myth |
| EVOLUTION | New novel out about international development (9) |
| INSOLVENT | New novel isn't ruined (9) |
| CABALLERO | Secret plotters have new role for Spanish gent (9) |
| ANCESTRAL | Have new cast learn about forebears |
| CLERICALWORK | Jobs in The Office for those tending to the flock (8,4) |
| MATRONLY | Just like those tending to the sick in only tram working? (8) |
| GREENERY | About to invest in alternative energy producing plants etc. (8) |
| NURSING | They run back and sing when tending the sick (7) |
| LEOMINSTER | "You've been tending the risotto for so long! __ for a bit" |
| FORAGE | Hay/silage for horses or cattle; a rummage in search of edible berries, mushrooms, nuts, plants etc growing in the wild; or, provisions generally (6) |
| METAMORPHOSES | Word, introduced in Ovid's epic about "transformations" of gods and humans into beasts, objects, plants etc, for change, holometabolism, mutation, rebirth or transition (13) |
| GEORGEBERNARDSHAW | Begorrah! Reads new novel by good Irish author |
