| LIGHTREADING | What illuminated manuscripts provide? |
| ENLIGHTENMENT | What illuminated writing may provide? (13) |
| EXITS | What illuminated signs mark |
| LIT | Short illuminated manuscripts? |
| ART | Illuminated manuscripts or tapestries, e.g. |
| LIGHTLITERATURE | Illuminated manuscripts? (5,10) |
| GOLDLEAF | Auric foil-like material used to gild wood carvings, picture/mirror frames, gourmet truffles and, formerly, medieval illuminated manuscripts (4,4) |
| BOOKOFKELLS | One of the finest extant illuminated manuscripts of the Gospels in Latin (4,2,5) |
| GOLD | Ormolu-like auric leaf applied to illuminated manuscripts, panel paintings and picture frames, figuratively removed from gingerbread when destroying an illusion (4) |
| LITMUS | Illuminated manuscript to absorb university acid test (6) |
| KELLS | Book of ___ (Medieval illuminated manuscript) |
| INITIAL | Historiated -; an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph in an illuminated manuscript (7) |
| BERRY | Tres Riches Heures du Duc de -; medieval illuminated manuscript created by the Limbourg brothers (5) |
| SPEC | What manuscripts may be submitted on |
| PARCHMENT | What old manuscripts were written on |
| VERSIFY | Check over last of manuscripts revealing what poets do |
| ONE | What a lower case l might mean, on some typewritten manuscripts |
| DEADSEASCROLLS | Ancient religious manuscripts founded in 1947 in what was then Palestine (4,3,7) |
| ONSPEC | How many manuscripts are submitted |
| EDITS | Improves manuscripts |
