| SMYTHE | Why the manuscript review reveals an old name (6) |
| DEFICIT | Will be apoplectic if edited review reveals shortfall |
| EXPOSE | Reveal an attitude no longer adopted (6) |
| LAPPET | An old name for the dog collar of a clergyman; or, a jar for conserves, preserves, jellies and the like (6) |
| URCHIN | From the Latin for "hedgehog", an old name for said spiny beast (6) |
| REPLAY | It may reveal an ump's miscue |
| ANONYM | Araucaria, for example, an old name Paul's backing (6) |
| ONAGRA | An old name for Oenothera (bot) (6) |
| PERSIA | Aspire to be an old name for Iran (6) |
| TURTLE | A tortoise-like marine chelonian named by English sailors; said terrapin's flesh, used for soup; or, an old name for a species of dove, symbolic of devoted or true love (6) |
| BRASSY | A bronze-colour fish; an old name for a two-wood golf club; or, a word generally meaning bronzish, harsh in tone, like a horn, loud or showy (6) |
| CASTLE | A fortress of sand, stone or wood; or, an old name for a scacchic rook (6) |
| SINBIN | Term for a penalty box in ice hockey or rugby; or, an old name for a pupil referral unit in a school (3,3) |
| COOPER | Author of How to Survive Christmas who lost the only copy of the manuscript of her novel Riders on a London bus in 1970 (6) |
| IDIOMS | Fool fails to conclude the manuscript contains colloquialisms (6) |
| DREAMS | Read in the manuscript about nocturnal visions (6) |
| THEMES | The manuscript is about Eastern subjects (6) |
| SPASMS | Springs on seeing the manuscript and then has convulsions (6) |
| WISDOM | TE Lawrence's account of his war experiences which he rewrote when he lost the manuscript (5,7,2,6) |
| REEDIT | Go over the manuscript again |
