| FACECARD | Maybe Jack Frost's first great book |
| RIME | Frost first did not start (4) |
| HARDCASH | Spooner says "Maybe Jack recycled material for money" (4,4) |
| CARDAMOM | Maybe Jack's married with a second taken in ___ this is quite spicy (8) |
| ENTERING | Going in at ease over great book attached to band (8) |
| FABULOUS | Great book -- parts of usual novel (8) |
| TIRESOME | It's annoying that anger's a part of great book |
| ICEMAKER | Jack Frost might just have the one in pub (3,5) |
| PRESTONE | "Defy Jack Frost" liquid brand |
| CLASSICS | Form is stocked with 100 great books (8) |
| ALLFOURS | Miranda July book heralded by the Times as "the first great perimenopause novel" |
| CANNIBAL | Carthage's first great general losing horse to ogre |
| GRAVITAS | ... and show the seriousness of first great star, via other means (8) |
| SUMERIAN | Relating to one of the first great civilisations, in the area that later became Babylonia (8) |
| MASACCIO | First great painter of the Italian Renaissance, born Tommaso Giovanni di Simone Guidi in 1401 (8) |
| ORDEALOF | First great novel of George Meredith, published in 1859 (3,6,2,7,7) |
| PLACARD | Maybe Jack will follow schedule, given short notice (7) |
| WEBB | Could be Clifton or maybe Jack (4) |
| GIANTKILLER | Maybe, Jack and Joe getting insecticide (5-6) |
| CARD | Maybe Jack's way to send greetings |
