| ABERYSTWYTH | Resort town in Ceredigion housing the National Library of Wales |
| SOLIHULL | Town southeast of Birmingham housing the National Exhibition Centre |
| KOLKATA | Site of the National Library of India |
| NIH | Home of the National Library of Medicine |
| CALCUTTA | Home to the National Library of India |
| CARDIGAN | One of the two garments forming a twinset; or, a market town in Ceredigion whose castle was the location of the first eisteddfod (8) |
| LAMPETER | Welsh town in Ceredigion at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas |
| FREELIBRARY | National library |
| CARDIGANBAY | Waters west of Ceredigion (8,3) |
| GARTHBROOKS | The Library of Congress announced Oct. 2 that this singer will be awarded the 2020 Gershwin Prize, making him the youngest songwriter yet to win it |
| NLA | National Library of Australia (abbr) (1,1,1) |
| RIO | National Library of Brazil city |
| TEHRAN | National Library of Iran city |
| TONYBENNETT | Rags to Riches singer who won the 2017 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: 2 wds. |
| CAPITOLHILL | The Library of Congress' locale |
| DEVILSBRIDGE | Tourist attraction in Ceredigion, Wales, also known as Pontarfynach |
| ALEXANDRIA | Great Library of ___ one of the largest libraries of the ancient world which also inspired the modern library in Egypt |
| CARDIGANSHIRE | Former county of Wales reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996 |
| LAYARD | In 1849, this explorer returned to Mesopotamia and continued excavations at Nineveh and Babylon, discovering in the process the huge library of Ashurbanipal, probably the earliest library ever created |
| BODLEIAN | Main research library of the University of Oxford, one of the oldest in Europe (8) |
