| TETRALOGY | Try legato out for literary group (9) |
| ACADEMES | Made case out for literary colleges |
| BOOKCLUB | Reserve hit for literary group (4,4) |
| LAKEPOETS | Literary group left Keats disconcerted about Poe (4,5) |
| COPYRIGHT | Legal protection for literary or creative work (9) |
| PUBLISHER | Relish working behind bar for literary person (9) |
| BOOKSHELF | Reserve ledge for literary content (9) |
| ELONGATED | Legato end somehow got extended (9) |
| EDGEWORTH | Anglo-Irish author whose novels include Letters for Literary Ladies, Castle Rackrent and Tales of Fashionable Life (9) |
| BILLSIKES | Trials coming in cycles for literary villain (4,5) |
| INKLINGS | Sounds of bells initially ignored in Oxford literary group |
| BLOOMSBURY | Literary group flourishes next to sink (10) |
| PHRASE | Literary group gets stressed reading aloud? (6) |
| ELITE | The literary group has a certain selectiveness with them (5) |
| JINDYWOROBAKMOVEMENT | Which Australian literary group, with a name chosen by Rex Ingamells from the Wuywurrung Aboriginal |
| ARTS | Literary group? |
| LONGJOHN | 9, vile 9, are reportedly for literary villain (4,4,6) |
| SILVER | 9, vile 9, are reportedly for literary villain (4,4,6) |
| SLUR | Dialect for thin mud; old word for a gliding throw when cheating with dice; or, a curved symbol indicating a musical phrase is to be played with legato articulation (4) |
| EVELYN | Just holding covers for literary chronicler (6) |
