Possible Clues:

• Uses novel to grasp writer's atmosphere of excitement
• State of excited or nervous anticipation
• Hanged if you'll be kept in it
• State of anxious waiting
• The 3 of having to wait
• Pre-climactic excitement
• Hanging up with the senses (8)
• American writers settled in the Home Counties with anticipation
• State of anxious uncertainty while waiting (8)
• Waiting in this; sup incense, by the sound of it