| BREADTH | Understand book first, take time (hour) to gain latitude (7) |
| ISSUE | First, take time off from the paper for the children (5) |
| PLUMB | Understand book prize given in reverse order |
| NOSEJOB | Soundly understands book, such as work on bridge |
| PREFACE | Speed to surround referee -- one gets in the book first (7) |
| THUNDER | Time, hours below, making loud sound (7) |
| ATTENDS | At first, takes care, so one pays attention (7) |
| RISIBLE | Absurd right is given by holy book, first off (7) |
| ANTLION | A large book first by one about insect (7) |
| LOITERS | "Life ___ at the book's first page - Ah! could we turn the leaf": Ralph Waldo Emerson (7) |
| VOLTAGE | Get a small book first about electric force |
| SNOWMAN | The ___, Raymond Briggs book first published in 1978 |
| OTHELLO | Books first half of musical play (7) |
| PAGETWO | Part of a book's first chapter, maybe |
| EDITION | Book's first printing, say |
| SHORTAGE | Want to arrange meeting time: hour put in (8) |
| TIARA | First take one article to artist as headgear (5) |
| TASTE | To sample, first take a slow train east (5) |
| ROBBIE | First Take That member to have a solo career (6,8) |
| WILLIAMS | First Take That member to have a solo career (6,8) |
