| WELLREAD | Like a popular book being highly educated (4-4) |
| RELOANED | Like a popular library book, maybe |
| PUTABOUT | Annoyed about a book being made available |
| CELERITY | Speed of book being put out by A-lister (8) |
| LETTERED | Highly educated character, one whose word is final? |
| TOPCLASS | It's fine for the most highly educated! (3,5) |
| UNIVERSE | Highly-educated poetry about the totality of all that is (8) |
| NEUROTIC | One wandered around ancient city with twitch, being highly strung (8) |
| AESTHETE | Art lover worried about book being incomplete (8) |
| ADDENDUM | Sticky matter, new poetry book being sent back for late supplement? |
| ONTHEJOB | Refusal to promote model with explosive book, being busy (2,3,3) |
| SCRUBBED | Cursed roughly about books being abandoned (8) |
| IGNORANT | I groan about books, being uneducated (8) |
| INTERRED | I was mistaken about books being buried (8) |
| BESTSELLER | Most successful rep gets a popular book (4,6) |
| ARMYANT | Mary threw away a book, being a social creature (4,3) |
| ENDERSGAME | 2013 sci-fi film starring Asa Butterfield, based on a popular book (6,4) |
| RAINBOW | Sky feature, series inspiring a popular book (7) |
| BEVY | Sounds like a popular drink with this group of beauties (4) |
| FATSDOMINO | If man stood out, he could be like a popular US singer (4,6) |
