| HOTTIE | With books of verses after hours, draw comfort in bed |
| SOLVENT | What you do with books of tradable status? (7) |
| SPENSER | A poet writes a couple of verses after school (7) |
| HOTWATERBOTTLE | In trouble, keeping nerve, get comfort in bed (3,5,6) |
| SECURITYBLANKET | An object providing comfort in bed or elsewhere (8,7) |
| OLDPOSSUM | Senior citizens' concession returned, all with book of 1 6 (3,6) |
| DACTYL | Two weak elements in this bit of verse, after strong start |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Poet transported to Paradise by a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou (but first, a book of verses |
| PSALMS | Conceals in hand, holding second book of verses (6) |
| CHAPTER | Part of a book of verses? (7) |
| HYMNAL | Book of verses expressing 20 (6) |
| MICAH | That man's gripping account turned into short book of verses |
| NOWWEARESIX | 1927 book of verses by A A Milne (3,2,3,3) |
| OMAR | "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" poet |
| BIBLE | Book of verses |
| NUMBERS | Paginates old book of verses |
| TWEEZERS | They extract middle verse after it was described as affectedly cutesy in last letter |
| EPISODE | Chapter and verse after record is set (7) |
| EVERSINCE | Rewrote nice verse after that (4,5) |
| RESOLVED | Old verse after a rewrite worked out (8) |
