| NOONTIDE | Midday, in a literary way |
| IRONIC | Sarcastic in a literary way (6) |
| DANTEAN | Hellish in a literary way |
| KRAAL | Songbird soaring around midday in a native village (5) |
| SUMMERS | Literary way of expressing 'years' (7) |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| MIASMA | Turns over a manuscript with intent leading to a bad atmosphere, in a literary sense (6) |
| TOPOS | A stock theme, especially in a literary work |
| NOON | Midday (in Shanghai for Jackie Chan) |
| NAMED | Is called before midday in the wrong end (5) |
| GENOA | Gone funny by midday in the city (5) |
| UNFINISHED | A French and Finnish report by writer of The Castle, the famous Kafkaesque one, in a literary sense (10) |
| ASPERSES | Slanders, in a literary sense, local fools holding a gent up (8) |
| CONCORDANCE | A book that indexes the principal words in a literary work |
| THEMARCHHARE | Participant in a literary tea party |
| PERIPETEIA | Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work |
| ESSAY | Points to mention in a literary work (5) |
| BOOKI | First in a literary series |
| MISFORMALICE | *13th in a literary series of 26 |
| POET | One published in a literary magazine, perhaps |
