| VERSO | Left-hand page of an open book or the back of a loose document (5) |
| RECTO | Right-hand page of an open book, or the front of a loose document (5) |
| GUTTURAL | Phonetics: pronouced in the throat or the back of the mouth (7) |
| REVERSE | Subordinate face of a twosided object such as a coin, medal or flag; the left-hand page of an open book; or, a backhanded sword-stroke (7) |
| COVER | Jacket of a book; or the top blanket of a bed (5) |
| SPINE | From the Latin meaning "thorn, prickle, backbone", the bound edge of a book; or, the vertebral column (5) |
| HINGE | A small piece of gummed paper used to attach a postage stamp to the page of an album (5) |
| GUTTER | Space between two facing pages of an open book, columns of type or stamps in a pane; a duct for diverting rainwater; or, a channel at either side of a bowling alley (6) |
| KNOCK | Criticise the effect of a loose bearing (5) |
| ZEBRA | Image on the last page of an alphabet book |
| ATLAS | World map book - or the guy holding it up |
| RENEWAL | The extension of the period of a loan of a library book or the validity of a contract, lease, licence, subscription etc (7) |
| EPIC | The picture from the book, or the book from the picture (4) |
| SLOPPY | Description of a loose "joe" jumper; gushy, maudlin, slapdash, slipshod or wishy-washy; or, wet and muddy, like a slough, marsh or quagmire (6) |
| EXCERPT | What is a passage taken out of a book, or the like (7) |
| TEXT | From "to weave", the words collectively "woven" together to form a book; or, the tome of writings itself (4) |
| EXCERPTS | What are passages taken out of a book, or the like (8) |
| CARTULARY | Word, from "little document", for a monastery's register-book; or, the monk charged with keeping said charter (9) |
| ALAWUNTOHIMSELF | A Liberal who fulminates wildly, he's something of a loose cannon (1,3,4,7) |
| PRETZELS | Glazed, salty cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot, originating in Europe (8) |
