| MANNERS | Social graces set out in a code of etiquette described in several books published by Debrett's, for example (7) |
| BREACH | Whether in a code of conduct, law, promise or one's trust, it is a crack, rift, rupture or veritable bust (6) |
| 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 |
| EMERGENCYEX | Past significant other to contact in a "code red" situation, hypothetically: 2 wds. (Theme answer: In this invented phrase, the word "IT" is removed from a term meaning "way out of a building during a |
| 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 |
| PROTOCOL | Code of etiquette or set of formal rules, originally on a "first glued page" (8) |
| NODDY | Titular wooden protagonist of 24 books published by English author Enid Blyton between 1949 and 1963 (5) |
| SYSTEM | ___ error, a computing software malfunction arising from e.g. a bug in a code or a corrupt file (6) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| RIGHTS | ___ Of Man, book published by Thomas Paine released in 1791 (6) |
| PEERAGE | Reference book on the genealogy of the British aristocracy, such as one published by Burkes or Debretts (7) |
| PARR | Last of Henry VIII's six wives whose Prayers or Meditations was the first book published by an English queen (4) |
| ANAPAEST | Stories the old man set out in a bit of poetry (8) |
