| SATURDAYNIGHT | Start of novel written before Sunday morning |
| ONE | Number of novels written by Emily Bronte (3) |
| TITLEPAGE | Start of novel call supporting championship (5,4) |
| AUSTERE | Bleak Georgian writer about to put out start of novel |
| AGNATE | Related a passage including start of novel (6) |
| CHAPERONE | Companion takes time out from start of novel |
| EDWINDROOD | Charles Dickens unfinished novel - only six of the proposed twelve chapters were written before he d |
| ABRAM | Stoker has article written before one of the patriarchs (5) |
| LADA | Russian car make, or the start of novel by Albert Payson Terhune |
| LINEONESPOCKETS | Start of novel, say: two space travellers back from Mars make a fast buck |
| OPPONENTS | Before Sunday, no Pope destroyed books of rivals (9) |
| ALIVE | Still in existence is first letter written before return of evil (5) |
| IOU | Letters written before a dollar amount, sometimes |
| UNDERPLAY | Foreign articles, written before game, show restraint |
| LEGBYE | Extra line, say, written before Cheerio (3,3) |
| IVANTHETERRIBLE | Four articles written before poor leader (4,3,8) |
| LIST | It might be written before shopping |
| LATENT | Tale re-written before book is hidden (6) |
| FLASHCARD | Paper written before an exam? |
| IMO | Letters written before expressing a viewpoint |
