| SPOILERS | Information about the plot of a film or book which may ruin a person's enjoyment of it (8) |
| SPOILER | Information which may ruin the plot of a film you haven't yet watched (7) |
| NUMBERS | Book which may knock you out? |
| ROLLINTHEHAY | Gather harvest for the enjoyment of it? |
| COOKONESGOOSE | Ruin a person's plans, perhaps |
| PATCH | Quietly chat about the plot of ground (5) |
| SCENARIO | An outline or synopsis of the plot of a dramatic or literary work such as a film, novel or play; or, a postulated sequence of possible developments or events (8) |
| SYNOPSIS | A summary of the plot of a book, film or play; or, a general view (8) |
| BEETROOT | Beat on the radio relates to Homeland clip and one of those reddish types lying about the plot (8) |
| REVIEWED | Assessed (a film or book, eg) (8) |
| ACTION | The collective events forming the plot of a drama, film, play or story; the mechanism of a piano or a watch; or, any deed, gesture or thing done (6) |
| APPENDIX | Extra part of book which a surgeon might ship out (8) |
| AMIRACLE | John Ferling's historical book which explores America's victory in the War of Independence, Almost . |
| THRILLER | Film or book with an exciting twisty plot (8) |
| LUMINARY | One instructs mankind and may ruin it after fifty (8) |
| EPISTLES | Any of various New Testament books which were originally apostolic letters (8) |
| TWIST | Curl of lemon zest as a cocktail garnish; or, a sudden change in the plot of a novel or film (5) |
| LASVEGAS | Learning from __, 1972 book which brought postmodern architecture to wider attention (3,5) |
| MACGUFFIN | Term used by Hitchcock for a device which serves only to advance the plot of a film (9) |
| IGNORANT | Italian woman won't open books - which makes her so? |