| BYHAND | Of a letter, card, invitation or other piece of mail, delivered in person rather than via the postal service (2,4) |
| MEMORIALS | There to remind us of how the mail's delivered in Rome (9) |
| ISLAM | How the mail's delivered in the Muslim world (5) |
| BETTING | Odds and ends of terrorist delivered in person (7) |
| LOCUS | A place; the position of a gene on a chromosome; or, a passage in a book or other piece of writing (5) |
| SPINDLE | A turntable's central rod for holding a record; a spike used with a distaff for hand-spinning yarn; or, a baluster, chair leg or other piece of wood turned with a lathe (7) |
| RHYME | From Greek meaning "to flow", word for a crambo; a couplet or other piece of assonant verse; a poem; a consonant Cockney phrase/idiom; or, any chime, jingle or tink (5) |
| PRANK | A wicked malicious act or mad frolic of the past, but a playful trick, practical joke or other piece of harmless mischief of today (5) |
| CACHET | Meaning "to press", a private seal on a letter; or, a commemorative stamp on an envelope, postcard or other piece of philatelic stationery (6) |
| PRUNTS | Blackberry- or raspberry-shaped blobs of molten glass fused to a rummer, vase or other piece of glassware for decoration or grip (6) |
| ABSTRACT | A summary of an article, book, speech or other piece of writing (8) |
| CENTO | From the Latin for "patchwork garment", a verse or other piece consisting of a collage/hotchpotch of quotations from several authors (5) |
| ADHOMINEM | Of an attack, directed against a person rather than their argument; Latin, 'to the person' (2,7) |
| FRAGMENT | From "to break", a chip, crumb, shard or other piece broken off; or, an unfinished portion or part of a conversation, novel, writing etc (8) |
| OPUS | A singular opera or other piece of music (4) |
| RSVP | Initialism of a French phrase traditionally found at the foot of an invitation or at-home card (1,1,1,1) |
| RASPUTINTHEMADMONK | Hammer horror film in which Christopher Lee plays a historical person rather than a vampire |
| ANTHOLOGY | A published collection of poems or other pieces of writing (9) |
| HOLISTIC | ___ medicine, one that tries to treat the whole person rather than only a physical condition (8) |
| BIRYANI | Starter of idli with any other piece of meat served up in Indian dish (7) |
