| ENDPAPERS | Leaves connecting a book's covers to its first and last pages |
| MISTER | Title abbreviated to its first and last letters |
| ABONETOPICK | Single subject within a book's covers an item of contention |
| TABOO | Forbidden fruit a book covers (5) |
| GOTOPOT | Degenerate dug nude upon books' covers (2,2,3) |
| TINA | Girl's name that becomes a contraction when its first and last letters are switched |
| EMU | Bird that's a primate minus its first and last letters |
| FRONT | Word for a person's forehead or face originally, later a book's cover, a shirt's dicky, a shop's facade, a seaside promenade or any other forepart (5) |
| DOUBLESIDED | Like some tape ... and each starred clue's answer, based on its first and last two letters |
| EASE | Word that sounds like its first and last vowels |
| OREO | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| CRESCENT | The curved shape of the moon in its first and last quarters (8) |
| PLUG | Seedling grown in a tray; device connecting a flex to a wall socket; a good word; or, a bung for a basin (4) |
| MARKERS | Scorers in squash; short name for strips used to indicate the last pages read in books; or, another name for felt-tips used with colouring-in books (7) |
| BLURB | Quote from a reviewer on a book's cover |
| VIJAYHAZARE | He captained India to its first Test win and has a trophy named after him. (5,6) |
| SENORA | Title usually abbreviated to its first, fifth and sixth letters |
| ZINC | Its symbol consists of its first and third letters |
| SPIN | Turn part of a book's cover most of the way (4) |
| ENDPAPER | Heavy sheet inside a book's cover |
