| YELLOW | 'The --', 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6) |
| WALLPAPER | 'The ---', 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (6,4-5) |
| THEYELLOW | Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story first published in 1892 (3,6,4-5) |
| HERLAND | 1915 Charlotte Perkins Gilman novel first published in The Forerunner magazine (7) |
| WAR | "Maleness means ___": Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| LIZZIE | American tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother, _ Borden (6) |
| THOMAS | Brandon ___, author of the 1892 comic play Charley's Aunt |
| BEADLE | Miss ___ school teacher on the TV show Little House on the Prairie played by Charlotte Stewart |
| SHARMA | Fraud-commiting Dales bloke who was dumped by Charlotte Bellamy's character (3,6) |
| CHARLESPOOTER | Titular subject of the 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (7,6) |
| ANOBODY | 'The -', 1892 novel by George and Weedon Grossmith (5,2,1,6) |
| DIARYOF | 'The -', 1892 novel by George and Weedon Grossmith (5,2,1,6) |
| FRITZ | Brother of Clara and Louise in the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (5) |
| NUTCRACKER | The -, 1892 two-act ballet with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (10) |
| WRECKER | 'The ---', 1892 novel by R.L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (7) |
| WILDE | Author of the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar _ (5) |
| TINYBIT | "A ___ nervous, I'd never been kissed" (Billy Gilman line) |
| APALM | "___ for Mrs. Pollifax": Gilman |
| KIP | Gilman of "Nurses" |
| JANE | ___ Eyre 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte which depicts the story of Mr. Rochester and the eponymous heroine |