| JOYCE | Nora who asked her husband "Why don't you write books people can read?" |
| LIPS | Some people can read them |
| CHAPTERS | Bits of books people like canon are incorporated in (8) |
| LITERATURE | Going round ancient city able to read and write books (10) |
| PENCHANT | Inclination one has to write books after tea |
| GHOST | A good many write books anonymously (5) |
| PUN | "Well, if you like your hotel so much, why don't you Marriott," for one |
| EPHRON | Nora who wrote, "Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from" |
| QUITSTARING | "Why don't you take a picture - it'll last longer!" |
| STARE | Prompt someone to say "Why don't you take a picture - it'll last longer!" |
| CALLME | "Why Don't You __" (Macy Gray song, 2 wds.) |
| LOSER | "I'm a - baby, so why don't you kill me?"Beck (5) |
| TANA | Gordon Ramsay's wife who writes books on food (4) |
| AARON | A "Nora" who has had a sex change? (5) |
| META | In American Pie, Don Mclean sang, 'I ... girl who sang the blues, And asked her for some happy news' (3,1) |
| GAVEHIMTHEBRUSH | But when he asked her to join him in painting, she... |
| PLUMMER | Arthur Edwin asked her to leave the cobbles and join him in Canada (6,7) |
| EVELYN | Arthur Edwin asked her to leave the cobbles and join him in Canada (6,7) |
| ALAHAN | She bravely asked her ex Nina Lucas out on a date in Coronation Street (4,6) |
| ASHA | She bravely asked her ex Nina Lucas out on a date in Coronation Street (4,6) |
