| LIBRARIES | Rooms, or sets of rooms, where books and other literary materials are kept (9) |
| STOCKROOM | A place where goods or materials are kept until needed in retail premises (9) |
| DORE | Once employer of some 40 wood engravers, a French artist whose lavish illustrations grace editions of the Bible, Don Quixote, Inferno and other literary classics (4) |
| LIBRARY | Room where books are kept (7) |
| APARTMENT | A room or set of rooms, usually leased as a dwelling (9) |
| LIBRARIAN | A custodian of literary material is a bookie, perhaps |
| BRIDAL | ____ suite, a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples (6) |
| TENEMENT | Self-contained room or set of rooms (8) |
| SNIPPET | A short excerpt of news or literary material (7) |
| ULM | Initially urgent literary material was handled by a top aviator |
| CELLARAGE | A rave at back of room where wine is kept (9) |
| THEORISER | One who constructs ideas or sets of ideas to explain things (9) |
| BRICOLAGE | Work of art made from whatever materials are to hand |
| STAIRCASE | Broad, mirrored or spiralled for show, perhaps the way up to the rooms where the scholars all go (9) |
| GALLERIES | Rooms or buildings for exhibiting works of art (9) |
| RADIATORS | Apparatuses for diffusing heat, e.g. for warming rooms or cooling engines (9) |
| PARTYWALL | Divider common to two rooms or buildings (5,4) |
| TROLLOPE | Author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire books and other novels including Castle Richmond, The Belton Estate and The Vicar of Bullhampton (8) |
| ADAPTION | A turning of a novel or other literary work into a TV or radio programme, play or film (8) |
| STRINGS | Cords or lines; or, sets of onions, pearls or other things, threaded or tied together on such thin strands (7) |
