| PNIN | Nabokov novel after "Lolita" |
| PETSEMATARY | Stephen King's next novel after "Christine" |
| DILEMMA | Fix novel, after bending back cover (7) |
| SKIMP | Be mean towards Kipling novel after second page |
| PLIGHTONESTROTH | Propose to shorten novel after alarming predicament |
| PETCEMETERY | 1983 Stephen King novel, after spell-checking |
| OMAN | State of novel after initial rejection (4) |
| EZEKIEL | Book like novel after leisure, say (7) |
| BRIGADIER | I read novel after prison officer (9) |
| HUNTFORREDJULY | With "The," Tom Clancy novel, after a pregnant pause? |
| MARKTWAIN | I want novel after feature for author (4,5) |
| BENEVOLENT | Inclination to pack eastern novel, after review, friendly (10) |
| COVERED | Comedian's debut novel after leaving the Fringe read aloud and reviewed? |
| ETIOLATES | Blanches: a T S Eliot novel after completion of verse? (9) |
| CHAINREACTION | In an erotic novel, after tea one thing leading to another |
| FALLONHARDTIMES | Novel after old mill hands experience difficulties (4,2,4,5) |
| ERIC | ___ Van Lustbader (author of Jason Bourne novels after |
| JOHNFRANCOME | Jump jockey who has written novels after retiring in 1986 |
| LOLITA | Nabokov novel with the character "Vivian Darkbloom," an anagram of "Vladimir Nabokov" |
| CLAREQUILTY | Author of playlet The Enchanted Hunters murdered by Humbert Humbert in 1955 Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita (5,6) |
