| PICKWICK | The - Papers; the first novel by Charles Dickens (8) |
| FALLINGLEAVES | Going down for the papers - the types picked up by the gardeners interested in composting (7,6) |
| TISSUES | Papers - the first editions (7) |
| PARAPET | Thanks to the paper, the bank is ours! (7) |
| THEFLOOD | The first novel by Ian Rankin, published in 1986 |
| LUCKYJIM | The first novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954 (5,3) |
| ADAMBEDE | What was the first novel by English author George Eliot? (4,4) |
| UNIONSTREET | The first novel by Pat Barker, published by Virago Press in 1982, of which the 1990 film Stanley & Iris is a loose adaptation (5,6) |
| LIAR | The ---, the first novel by Stephen Fry, published in 1991 (4) |
| WOLFHALL | The first novel in Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy (4,4) |
| EVELINA | The first novel by author Fanny Burney |
| BUDDENBROOKS | The first novel by German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann (12) |
| HEADLONGHALL | The first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 |
| MARYBARTON | The first novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848 (4,6) |
| CAREERGIRLS | The first novel by Louise Bagshawe, published in 1995 |
| FOOLSCAP | Paper the clot has on his head (8) |
| REAPPEAR | Verb meaning "emerge again" formed by an anagram of "paper" + the body part used for hearing |
| ELEPHANT | Size of paper the panel got wrong |
| INTHEORY | On paper the irony's wasted (2,6) |
| LOST | The first novel in the Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, The _ Kingdom (4) |
