| ALGARVE | Holiday area calls for simple life in pool, absorbing good book! |
| GEESTRING | Sandy area - call for skimpy attire (3-6) |
| ALGAE | Plant life in pools and ponds (5) |
| NICOLE | First name of Ms Richie who, together with Paris Hilton, starred in the US series The Simple Life in the 20008 (6) |
| UNICELLULAR | Like simple life in college, until having to be evacuated into vault |
| ADAMANT | Unyielding American parents? That's the basis for a good book! |
| PUTDOWN | Insult: what you can't do to a good book! |
| REVELATION | What an eye-opener comes at the end of that good book! (10) |
| REVISEDVERSION | Vin rosé, perhaps, and a good book! |
| SONGOFSOLOMON | Monsoon, so golf's abandoned: here's a good book! (4,2,7) |
| EMOLLIENT | Saves someone's skin for sweetheart with gangster's mate? That's the good books! (9) |
| JUDGES | Hardy character's absorbing good Biblical text (6) |
| FERGUSEWING | Breakdown of new figures absorbing good Scottish politician (6,5) |
| LENGTH | Distance one may swim fast, absorbing good hour |
| AMISH | Religious group, known for simple living especially in Pennsylvania (5) |
| PAGE | Seen in court? That's one for the book! (4) |
| YELLOW | Where you might look for chickens? Book-book! - w 5dn (6,5) |
| PAGES | Where you might look for chickens? Book-book! - w 1ac (6,5) |
| PRIMER | Initial coating for simple book (6) |
| PIPES | From "chirps, squeaks", word for simple wind instruments from which the term for tubes/hoses derives (5) |
