| MSS | Short for 'manuscripts' (3) |
| PARCHMENT | Skin used for manuscripts (9) |
| WRITINGS | Corrections said to be needed for manuscripts |
| FORMS | Pieces of paper for manuscript? (5) |
| PAPER | Peter has copyright for manuscript? (5) |
| REARMS | Gets ready to fight again out the back for manuscript (6) |
| ZOOMS | They're the type of lens that captures animals for manuscript (5) |
| LIT | Short illuminated manuscripts? |
| ART | Illuminated manuscripts or tapestries, e.g. |
| EDS | People who polish authors' manuscripts: Abbr. |
| ONE | What a lower case l might mean, on some typewritten manuscripts |
| GOLDLEAF | Material used for gilding panel paintings and picture frames and for illuminating manuscripts (4,4) |
| SUMACS | Print off manuscripts for the spicy types (6) |
| DEADSEA | Collection of manuscripts discovered in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956 (4,3,7) |
| OFFFORM | Describing indifferent quality of folios or manuscripts, initially (3,4) |
| EDDA | Word linking with "Prose" or "Poetic" for two ancient Icelandic manuscripts containing tales, legends and ballads of Scandinavian mythology (4) |
| SETTLEOLDSCORES | Finally get even light on Mozart manuscripts? (6,3,6) |
| LEAF | Organ of photosynthesis that can be used to identify its tree of origin; or, gold in the form of a very thin sheet for gilding or illuminating manuscripts (4) |
| DEADSEASCROLLS | Ancient religious manuscripts founded in 1947 in what was then Palestine (4,3,7) |
| ROXBURGHECLUB | Association of bibliophiles, founded in 1812, for the purpose of printing rare works or manuscripts (9,4) |