| THESCARLETLETTER | 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne featuring the character Hester Prynne |
| SCARLET | "The ___", Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6) |
| LETTER | "The ---", Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6) (see 11D) |
| SCARLETLETTER | The ___, 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (7,6) |
| THESCARLET | 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (3,7,6) |
| MARBLE | The ___, 1860 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (6,4) |
| MARBLEFAUN | The ___, 1860 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (6,4) |
| FAUN | The -, 1860 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (6,4) |
| FANSHAWE | 1828 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8) |
| ALTONLOCKE | 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement (5,5) |
| SPENLOW | see 5dn, David Copperfield's first wife in the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens |
| PENDENNIS | 'The History of --', 1850 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (9) |
| DORA | and 8dn, David Copperfield's first wife in the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens |
| TIMEFLIESOVERUS | Start of a quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| TWICETOLDTALES | 1837 short-story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| DORASPENLOW | First wife of David Copperfield in a 1850 novel by Charles Dickens (4,7) |
| HESTERPRYNNE | Main character in Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter (6,6) |
| NATHANIEL | Author who wrote the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, _ Hawthorne (9) |
| LETTERA | What Hester Prynne wore in a Hawthorne novel |
| EASYA | From 2010, a high-school comedy inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (4,1) |
