| CARRELS | Small enclosures in the stack room of a library for study by individual patrons |
| READINGROOM | Part of a library for study (7,4) |
| NACELLE | Word for a little boat first, later a small enclosure in the form of a streamlined pod housing a plane's engine or a wind turbine's works (7) |
| DISPENSARY | Chemist's putting small enclosures in log (10) |
| OPTICS | Fresh topics for study by light-minded scientists (6) |
| CARREL | From an old word for a round dance, a term for a study in a monastic cloister, thus an alcove or niche with a desk in a library for private reading (6) |
| GAR | ___ hole (Brunson's term for location of chips in the stack of a tight player)* |
| SOOT | The black in the stack |
| LOGS | They got the axe in the stack |
| RENEWAL | The extension of the period of a loan of a library book or the validity of a contract, lease, licence, subscription etc (7) |
| DISCO | Word, from "record library", on the model of bibliotheque, "library", for a type of dance club with pop music, often compered by a disc jockey (5) |
| GLOVEBOX | Enclosure in the dashboard of a motor vehicle for small accessories (5,3) |
| INTERIOR | --- design, the profession of planning the decoration of the rooms of a home, office, etc. (8) |
| LEARNED | "Thomas Bodley has built this library for you and the republic of the ____" (Oxford university library entrance) |
| MAINLY | Old woman in confines of library for the most part (6) |
| CONVERGENCE | Read over small enclosure in border in act of coming together |
| TRICKIER | Putting the stack of hay into a row is more difficult (8) |
| BEN | Scots word for the inner or better room of a cottage, as opposed to its outer "but"; or, a peak, such as Nevis (3) |
| SOMBER | Like the locker room of a team that's been eliminated from the playoffs |
| HAUL | Loot from robbery found in the main room of a great house they say (4) |
