| SQUELCH | Suppress follow-up - except the second chapter |
| EARMARK | Set aside each comment except the second |
| EMBARRASSING | Tricky compiler's given up, except for trapping idiot (12) |
| FUZZYMATH | It doesn't add up ... except as a hint to 17-, 25-, 37- and 49-Across |
| ASCETIC | A second chapter with name coming up for one who follows an austere life for religious reasons (7) |
| SCIFI | 16A 12A with second chapter providing something imaginary (3-2) |
| SCHONBERG | Arnold's second chapter on British needs measure of work |
| SCOTT | Author's second chapter a bit too much |
| GENII | Book's second chapter briefly describes local spirits |
| SCAN | Peruse article below second chapter (4) |
| ASCEND | Scale shown in a second chapter before finale (6) |
| HANDLER | Second chapter withdrawn from Marlowe yarn? (7) |
| SCRAPPED | Second chapter, knocked, being discarded |
| ATONCE | This second chapter goes into redress |
| CENTRE | A player in netball allowed to move all over the court except the goal circles; a focal point; the filling in a chocolate; or, the ring around the bull's-eye in archery (6) |
| BURRO | Or rub them up the wrong way - except the donkey! (5) |
| LEGBYE | In cricket, a run scored after the ball has hit a part of the batsman's body, except the hand (3,3) |
| WORLD | They are found all over the ___ except the Arctic and Antarctica |
| ADDENDS | All the parts of a column except the bottom |
| SPOOF | Parody about the river's soft, except the ending (5) |
