| BLEAK | --- House, Charles Dickens novel (5) |
| HOUSE | Charles Dickens novel featuring the character Ada Clare (5,5) |
| EDWIN | "The ___', unfinished Charles Dickens novel featuring the character Dick Datchery (7,2,5,5) |
| DROOD | "The ___', unfinished Charles Dickens novel featuring the character Dick Datchery (7,2,5,5) |
| KROOK | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion (5) |
| TWIST | Charles Dickens novel (6,5) |
| RUDGE | Charles Dickens novel (7,5) |
| TIMES | Hard ___, Charles Dickens novel (5) |
| CAROL | Charles Dickens novel featuring Tiny Tim (1,9,5) |
| GREAT | Charles Dickens novel, ... Expectations (5) |
| SMIKE | Dim character in the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (5) |
| PINCH | Tom, devoted admirer and assistant to Pecksniff in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (5) |
| QUILP | Daniel, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (5) |
| SILAS | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| FAGIN | Receiver of stolen goods in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist (5) |
| URIAH | & 2D, Clerk in 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (5,4) |
| SIKES | Burglar in 1839 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist (4,5) |
| DOLLY | Spotted trout named after a character in 1841 Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge (5,6) |
| DAVID | Charles Dickens novel featuring the character Wilkins Micawber (5,11) |
| ATALE | Charles Dickens novel, ...of Two Cities (1,4) |
