| MANNERS | Social graces set out in a code of etiquette described in several books published by Debrett's, for example (7) |
| ANECDOTES | These stories, being personal, are sent out in a code (9) |
| ETIQUETTE | Codes of polite behaviour in society, described in books by Debrett's (9) |
| NOAH | 950 year-old in several books, not one that explains it |
| PROTOCOL | Nonsense contained in fancy polo club's code of etiquette (8) |
| RULE | Word for a graduated strip of metal or wood; a code of religious life; a principle of conduct or procedure; or, a standard of estimation (4) |
| POTTER | Author of a series of illustrated books published by Frederick Wame & Co. who bequeathed 15 farms and some 4,000 acres to the National Trust (6) |
| CAPTAINAMERICA | The alter ego of Steve Rogers in comic books published by Marvel Comics |
| SYSTEM | ___ error, a computing software malfunction arising from e.g. a bug in a code or a corrupt file (6) |
| NODDY | Titular wooden protagonist of 24 books published by English author Enid Blyton between 1949 and 1963 (5) |
| LIMITEDEDITIONS | Restricted numbers of books - published by plcs? (7,8) |
| CARPARKS | Fish from old big boat is fairly set out in a number of lots for Americans (3,5) |
| CREED | Set of beliefs seen ere it's set out in a compact disc (5) |
| TIDEWAY | With a code of practice for rowing and paddling, a stretch of the Thames where the Boat Race traditionally takes place (7) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| BRAILLE | Communication system used by blind and visually-impaired people; a code of raised dots and cells invented in 1824 (7) |
| QUEENSBERRY | The 9th Marquess of - - - gave his name to a code of rules followed in boxing (11) |
| LAWGIVER | One who draws up a code of regulations for a nation or people (8) |
| WASTENOTWANTNOT | Used to be several books, with a newer set repeatedly retaining old tip on economy |
| HOOKE | Discoverer of the law of elasticity whose folio volume Micrographia illustrated with copperplate engravings was an early book published by the Royal Society (5) |