| KATEWINSLET | The Reader Oscar-winning actress (4,7) |
| WINSLET | "The Reader" Oscar winner |
| WORKMATE | "The Reader" Oscar winner Winslet |
| GALLEYPROOF | Early impression the reader may have to correct (6,5) |
| IPROMISEYOU | Poem Iris edited before the reader, Scout's Honour (1,7,3) |
| CLIFFHANGER | Like one abseiling down Beachy Head, it leaves the reader in suspense (11) |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| KATE | ___ Winslet, actress who won an Oscar for her performance in The Reader, opposite 14A (4) |
| PTO | Acronym often found at the bottom of a letter advising the reader that there is more writing over the page (1,1,1) |
| EMOTICON | Text-based faces and objects that help give the reader a sense of the writer's feelings behind the text (8) |
| MYSTERY | Suspenseful novel that keeps the reader in the dark until the very end |
| STEIN | "Wait while I hasten slowly forwards," was the advice given to the readers of the work of the eccent |
| SYDNEY | At the start of this century, a person claiming to be Lady Agatha Maberley from the Fakenham area entertained the readers of the ... Morning Herald with tales of different disasters and events (6) |
| OLIN | 'The Reader' actress Lena |
| PERUSES | What the reader does through the customs! (7) |
| SEEPAGE | It tells the reader where to look for the word "percolation" (7) |
| LECTERN | It's for the reader to elect to join the navy (7) |
| LECTOR | Caveat ___ (let the reader beware) |
| FREE | Like the Reader |
| ALT | ___-weekly (the Reader, e.g.) |
