| ITWAS | "A Tale of Two Cities" opening |
| DICKENS | A signed copy of this author's A Tale of Two Cities would set you back a cool £275,000 in 2014 |
| THEBEST | The opening words of A Tale of Two Cities (2,3,3,4,2,5) |
| OFTIMES | The opening words of A Tale of Two Cities (2,3,3,4,2,5) |
| WAS | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| DESPAIR | A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of..." (7) |
| WINTER | "It was the spring of hope, it was the ___ of despair" (A Tale of Two Cities line) |
| WEEKLY | Like the installments of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| TIMES | Sixth word of 'A Tale of Two Cities' |
| BESTOFTIMES | Charles Dickens's opening in A Tale of Two Cities; It was the... (4,2,5) |
| DEFARGE | Madame --, wife of Ernest in 'A Tale of Two Cities' (7) |
| MADAMEDEFARGE | '[S]trong and fearless' antagonist of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, killed by Miss Pross (6,7) |
| CHARLESDARNAY | Character in Charles Dickens's novel A Tale Of Two Cities who bears a resemblance to Sydney Carton (7,6) |
| CARTON | Sydney - (A Tale of Two Cities) |
| LONDON | "A Tale of Two Cities" setting (6) |
| LUCIE | ___ Manette, woman in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| MANETTE | Lucie in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| ROMANCE | A Tale of Two Cities one's abandoned |
| LUCIEMANETTE | In A Tale of Two Cities, ____ marries Charles Darnay |
| PROSS | Miss ___, Lucie Manette's governess in A Tale of Two Cities (5) |
