| OLIVERTWIST | Dickensian orphan who is rescued in the end by Mr Brownlow (6,5) |
| JANEFAIRFAX | Orphan who is Miss Bates's niece in Jane Austen's novel Emma |
| FRIDAY | Native person who is rescued by Robinson Crusoe and named after the day the event happened |
| DEVICE | Tablet swallowed in the end, by egghead with bad habit |
| ADOPTER | Mr. Brownlow, to Oliver Twist |
| STEVENSON | Scottish author nevertheless Samoan at the end, by the way (9) |
| HELLENE | Girl left in, at the end, by Greek characters (7) |
| FALCONER | Two criminals held by iron restraint at the end by hawker, perhaps (8) |
| SLATED | Criticised near the end by sons and daughters |
| DEREK | Held back at the end by bewhiskered actor Jacobi (5) |
| RENEGADE | Was enraged, at the end, by turn-out for a dissident (8) |
| APPEARANCE | Turn up at a party, at the end, by making an entrance (10) |
| NICO | She covered "The End" by her former lover Jim Morrison |
| EUROCRATS | About to have courts organised, at the end, by Brussels staff (9) |
| BEYOND | Farther from the end by turning over oxygen (6) |
| STAMPEDE | May be crushed, at the end, by mad rush (8) |
| DESPOND | In the Pilgrim's Progress, the deep, miry place from where Christian is rescued (6,2,7) |
| SLOUGHOF | In the Pilgrim's Progress, the deep, miry place from where Christian is rescued (6,2,7) |
| SNED | How to prune the ends by mistake (4) |
| OLIVER | Bath biscuit or cracker popular with turophiles; the companion of Roland; a Dickensian orphan; or, the nature-inspired poet Mary (6) |
