| LIBRARIES | They have a reputation for offering loans to those with a number of titles (9) |
| SUBPRIME | Like loans to those with a poor credit rating |
| BOOKPUBLISHER | Employs ghostwriter for one of those with a number of titles (4,9) |
| GODDEN | Dancer-turned novelist who wrote 70 books including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The Peacock Spring as well as a number of titles for children (6) |
| BOOKBINDINGS | Starts 14 across with what's irrevocable for society getting stitched up by those with a number of t |
| EULOGISTS | They have a reputation for passing remarks to those taking their hats off to others (9) |
| REFORMERS | Is about to shape up, with little hesitation, to those with radical ideas (9) |
| WADSETTER | Highlander offering loans with more liquidity to cover bills? |
| GETBEHIND | Begin to run out of time for offering aid |
| RUNNERSUP | Carpets for occupier, central to those with second or third places (7-2) |
| WORLDBANK | International financial institution that provides loans to developing countries (5,4) |
| LABORATORIES | They have a reputation for employing rats in the French Bora-Bora? A fair amount of politicians! (12) |
| DIETITIANS | They have a reputation for losing to those advocating cuts (10) |
| DRESSERS | They have a reputation for putting on other people's clothes in the barbers when they have hair cut (8) |
| SUNTRAPS | They have a reputation for exposing people to the heat from newspaper stings perhaps (8) |
| MAGI | They have a reputation for being wise guys with endless tricks (4) |
| TAPEMEASURES | They have a reputation for sizing up amount in wraps (4,8) |
| FASTLANE | Tenor starts old training programme with track that applies to those with a hectic lifestyle (4,4) |
| ICEPICKS | Sick characters welcome heroic blockbusters sold to those with a mountain to climb (3,5) |
| ELECTORATE | Top executive sends out a letter to those with a say (10) |
