| STYLEBOOK | Manual of typographic rules and deeds for writers, editors and publishers (5,4) |
| ERASER | Writer's editor, of a sort |
| WORDIEST | Most verbose start from writer - editor's bemused (8) |
| KAMASUTRA | Hindu manual of social and sexual mores (4,5) |
| HOMEGUARD | In 1941, artist Roland Penrose wrote the ____ Manual of Camouflage |
| ENTERTAIN | Deed for which this host's application is detained? (9) |
| ONIONSOUP | Oxford grammarian and publisher offering course |
| BOOKMAKER | Turf accountant and publisher perhaps (9) |
| EMOTICONS | Smileys in typographic form (9) |
| BULLETINS | *Typographic dot |
| TEMPERING | Doing office work includes cover for editor and moderating (9) |
| IANHISLOP | Private Eye editor and Have I Got News for You regular (3,6) |
| INORDERTO | As a means to upset editor and Ron (2,5,2) |
| EULOGISED | European Union record is set down by editor and praised (9) |
| STEPPEDIN | Having loaded gun, very quiet editor and I intervened (7,2) |
| REDHANDED | Editor and assistant interrupting revolutionary in the act |
| TINPANALLEY | Colloquial term for the world of composers and publishers of popular music, originating in New York (3,3,5) |
| ALLEY | Tin Pan ___ : world of composers and publishers of popular music ? (5) |
| PAUL | Patron saint of missions, writers and publishers (4) |
| SEPT | Be Kind to Editors and Writers Mo. [for real!] |
