| READABLE | Novelist pens a book, large and what it should be |
| TOME | Book large and heavy from my perspective (4) |
| GHOSTWRITE | Pen a book for one who will get the credit |
| ANNUAL | Stop to pen a book |
| GREENCROSSCODE | Novelist pens mad, inauthentic and pedestrian advice (5,5,4) |
| HARDLY | Novelist pens line with difficulty |
| LECTERN | Stand holding book, large, recent novel (7) |
| TAKETHEFLOOR | Book large hotel suite? Give us an address (4,3,5) |
| WRITER | An author, man/woman of letters, novelist, pen etc, sometimes cursed with a mental "block" preventing or hindering the flow of words (6) |
| TRAVESTY | Most of the journey with a sore eye is a distortion of what it should be (8) |
| SCONE | Singular shape causes dispute about what it should be called (5) |
| BESOTTED | Infatuated by greatest footballer admitting love for United is only half what it should be (8) |
| EPIDEMIC | Plague poem only has half of what it should have (8) |
| INTESTATE | Institute books large property without specifying who will take over (9) |
| UPS | Delivery co. that's the subject of the book "Big Brown" |
| WHEREANGELSFEARTOTREAD | Book big attraction all the same for the foolish? |
| BASIC | Writer pens a point -- elementary (5) |
| SOPRANO | Singer, very professional, pens a number (7) |
| SNAZZY | Smart dwarf, losing heart, pens a last letter |
| PAST | Pens a test to rewrite the preterite. (4,5) |