| OBSERVANCE | Keeping page almost at start of chapter in honour (10) |
| HEADPIECE | Mind - this could be derived from illustration at start of chapter (9) |
| ECLAT | Start of chapter in story built up to brilliant effect |
| SCHEME | Plot and start of chapter in Victorian novel given by this writer |
| GAP | Turn the page, almost, if there's room to get through it (3) |
| REPLICA | Antiquated type keeping page and a duplicate (7) |
| WRAPPINGPAPER | Reportedly, reproving a person keeping page as gift cover (8,5) |
| DEPLETE | Rub out keeping page empty (7) |
| EXPIRATION | End of chapter in 'Atonement'? The end actually (10) |
| ATTRACTIVE | A dry veracity almost at work is appealing (10) |
| VERMICELLI | Loathsome person almost at jail insisting primarily for pasta, perhaps (10) |
| SATURATION | Planet, almost at inception, starts to be in contact with total coverage (9) |
| OTHERPLACE | In old English, revision of chapter left by Lords to Commons (5,5) |
| HELLSANGEL | Guardian magazine almost switched round small part of chapter? (5,5) |
| RETROGRADE | Backward reader got confused about the end of chapter (10) |
| FITTOBURST | Almost at the breaking point |
| CANON | Part of chapter in a set of books |
| STAVE | Word used in place of "chapter" in "A Christmas Carol" |
| CLENCH | Grasp Leonard, head of chapter, in church |
| DRACHMA | Currency of chapter in play (7) |
