| HEADING | Title of a chapter or an article; top of a curtain; or, a drift in a mine (7) |
| LINING | Inner fabric layer of a curtain or a garment; or, brown paper or mull for strengthening a book's back/spine (6) |
| EPIGRAPH | An inscription; or, a motto/quote at the beginning of a chapter or work (8) |
| SHAFT | Access tunnel near a drift in a mine; or, a passageway for a lift (5) |
| SCENE | Landscape; real/imaginary place of action or the setting of such in a novel or play; subdivision of an act, marked by the fall of a curtain; or, an unseemly display of emotion (5) |
| CUTTING | Leaf/stem trimmed from a plant for propagation; or, an article taken from a newspaper (7) |
| GROMMET | Reinforcing eyelet used on a curtain or the edge of a sail |
| PROVOST | The dignitary presiding over a cathedral chapter; or, the principal of certain university colleges (7) |
| CROCUS | A flowering corm forming a drift in a naturalised lawn, woodland, alpine meadow or under a deciduous tree (6) |
| TREACLE | Unbearable sentiment of a chapter left in box, maybe (7) |
| ECARTER | In French, to open (curtains) or spread (arms or legs) (7) |
| HEADER | Act of passing or shooting a ball with one's cranium; or, a type of title for an article, chapter or page (6) |
| GONDOLA | Carrier in Venice beginning to drift in windy lagoon (7) |
| PALLIUM | A cover, curtain or philosophical cloak |
| DRAPERY | Cloth, curtains or clothing hanging in loose folds (7) |
| DROPCAP | Large letter at the start of a chapter |
| STREAM | A rivulet of running water, thus a drift of same-aged schoolchildren, flow of thought, river of data, surge of words, tide of people or trickle of money (6) |
| MOTTO | From the Latin for "murmur" and the Italian for "word", a slogan such as that encapsulating a family's beliefs on their coat of arms; a quotation prefacing a book or chapter; or, a joke, riddle or scr |
| CONTENTS | The list or table of chapters or sections given at the front of a novel, periodical or other publication; or, as a mass noun, the material dealt with in such a work (8) |
| CHASTEN | Humble yachtsmen drift in my absence (7) |
