| FILE | Word, derived from a string upon which documents were strung, for a folder for keeping papers in order; or, a line or row of people, soldiers or chessboard squares (4) |
| BUREAU | Place for keeping papers in office (6) |
| BEAD | A little ball of glass or perforated and strung for use in a necklace or rosary |
| SPUN | Mena Suvari (& others) were strung out drug addicts in this 2002 film. |
| PHYLUM | We're told to put 'em in a folder for the botany division |
| INBOX | (Computing) a folder for incoming emails (5) |
| SPECIALCASE | In which documents for unusual court hearing are carried? (7,4) |
| REALITY | TV genre which documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations (7) |
| STAPLE | Principal device for keeping papers together |
| OLDER | More traditional thing for keeping papers fellow ignored (5) |
| DIPLOMA | Which document states a candidate's success in an examination (7) |
| MAGNACARTA | Which document was signed at Runnymede? (5,5) |
| COTTAGE | Word, derived from a medieval term for a one-roomed peasant dwelling or a name for a dove-house, for a small country dwelling (7) |
| POOTER | An entomologist's bottle for collecting insects; or, a word, derived from a character in Diary of a Nobody, for a petit bourgeois (6) |
| DISC | Word derived from a quoit thrown in ancient Greek games, for a circular object such as a record, CD, centre of a daisy or the seemingly flat figure presented by the Sun or Moon (4) |
| SHERLOCK | Word, derived from a character in stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for a detective, sleuth or person skilled in Holmesian deduction |
| DIGRAM | Sequence of two adjacent elements from a string of tokens, which are typically letters, syllables, or words, often used in analysis |
| HIERARCHY | Word, derived from a ranking system of angels and heavenly beings, for the pecking order of a group of people within an organisation or society (9) |
| CHEQUES | What bank documents were first issued in 1659 in London? (7) |
| ACCORD | Harmony from A string keeping constant (6) |
