| RESONATED | Struck chord having read notes wrongly |
| STENO | In short, he takes down a dictator's notes - perhaps notes wrongly (5) |
| HITSHOME | Strikes a chord, having screwed this in (4,4) |
| ESONT | Jumbled letters to read 'notes' |
| STAFF | Where you might read notes for personnel |
| ONTAPE | A piano note wrongly recorded |
| RANT | Read note, oddly, as expression of anger (4) |
| LECTERN | Stand to read note by Hannibal (7) |
| CAMELLIA | Flowering shrub arrived with note wrongly written up |
| OBLITERATED | Former pupil, able to read note, is destroyed (11) |
| STUDIED | Read note on varied duties (7) |
| DREAMY | Musing, having read my novel (6) |
| PERUSED | Returning salesperson, exploited, having read (7) |
| KINDLED | Aroused having read e-book? (7) |
| REDEYE | Lensman makes subjects look evil having read, 'Aye!' (3-3) |
| REASONED | Argued logically having read one's amendment |
| ADDICT | A devotee, having read dictionary's content |
| ANSWERED | Replied, having read news, possibly (8) |
| BLURB | Cry, having read first book's description (5) |
| RAWDEAL | Reform law having read the unfair terms (3,4) |
