| WACKFORDSQUEERS | Yorkshire schoolmaster who runs Dotheboys Hall in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| NEWMANNOGGS | Ralph Nickleby's clerk in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (6,5) |
| SQUEERS | Wackford, character in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (7) |
| SMIKE | Friend of the title character in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (5) |
| DOTHEBOYSHALL | Yorkshire school run by Wackford Squeers in the novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens |
| NICKLEBY | Charles Dickens' character sent to Dotheboys Hall, Nicholas ... |
| VERISOPHT | Lord Frederick -, character in Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby killed by Sir Mulberry Hawk in a duel (9) |
| NICHOLAS | Novel featuring Dotheboys Hall (8) |
| UDALL | Nicholas -, English schoolmaster who wrote the play Ralph Roister Doister (5) |
| WACKFORD | ,22 Dotheboys Hall head (Dickens) |
| ADACLARE | Young ward of Chancery in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House who falls in love with Richard Carstone |
| ORPHANAGE | Type of institution in which Oliver Twist is raised in Charles Dickens's novel (9) |
| ASCHAM | Author of Toxophilus ("Lover of the Bow") and The Schoolmaster who tutored Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I in their youth (6) |
| ALFREDJINGLE | Character in Charles Dickens's novel Pickwick Papers who tries to elope with Miss Wardle (6,6) |
| CHARLESDARNAY | Character in Charles Dickens's novel A Tale Of Two Cities who bears a resemblance to Sydney Carton (7,6) |
| SETH | Sanctimonious architect in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (4,9) |
| GRADGRIND | Mr Thomas --- school board Superintendent in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (9) |
| JOSIAHBOUNDERBY | Business associate of Mr Gradgrind in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (6,9) |
| GAMP | Sarah ---, nurse in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (4) |
| JARNDYCE | Mr ____, guardian of Esther in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (8) |
