| TOCOME | HG Wells' much later sequel to his 1835 Time Machine: a predictable bestseller! (3,5,2,6,2,4) |
| THESHAPE | HG Wells' much later sequel to his 1835 Time Machine: a predictable bestseller! (3,5,2,6,2,4) |
| OFTHINGS | HG Wells' much later sequel to his 1835 Time Machine: a predictable bestseller! (3,5,2,6,2,4) |
| THEOLDCOUPLE | Years-later sequel to a TV sitcom? |
| BROTHERS | 1986 novel by William Goldman that was the sequel to his 1972 novel Marathon Man |
| BAUM | Children's author who wrote 13 sequels to his classic hit |
| TOKEN | A sign or symbol; a coin-like disc used as a substitute for money in a slot machine; a memento; or, a voucher exchanged for a book (5) |
| THESHAPEOFTHINGSTOCOME | Sci-fi novel by HG Wells |
| PUMPFAKED | Phrase meaning "made a deceptive basketball move" formed by a gasoline-dispensing machine + a synonym for "forged": 2 wds. |
| LAMINATOR | Office machine's a beast to wheel round and to run |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a story by Washington Irving, went to sleep a subject of George III and woke much later as a citizen of the United States? (3,3,6) |
| ONEARMEDBANDIT | Gambling machine - a person with a weapon forbade it, we hear (3,5,6) |
| DRUM | --- machine, a synthesizer programmed to reproduce the sound of percussion instruments in variable rhythms and combinations (4) |
| TOWER | Medieval war machine; a belfry; donjon; or, the high flight of a bird (5) |
| CREATUREOFHABIT | Bundle a 3 4 into taxi - it's a predictable sort (8,2,5) |
| CLOCHE | A stereotype in printing; an often over-quoted saying or platitude; or, a predictable person or thing (6) |
| CLICHE | A stereotype in printing; an often over-quoted saying or platitude; or, a predictable person or thing (6) |
| READ | Coronation Street's Tim Metcalfe had to learn to do this much later than most (4) |
| PUGMILL | A machine a dog may harm (3,4) |
| ECCLESIASTES | Pessimistic book of the Old Testament traditionally ascribed to Solomon but written much later (12) |