| HARDTIMES | 1854 Charles Dickens novel (4,5) |
| COKETOWN | Fictional mill town in which 1854 Charles Dickens novel Hard Times is set (8) |
| ELIZABETH | Author of the 1854-55 novel North And South, _ Gaskell (9) |
| BALACLAVA | 1854 battle of the Crimean War (9) |
| METOFFICE | National agency founded by Robert FitzRoy in 1854 |
| ALDERSHOT | Town in Hampshire that became the site of a garrison in 1854 (9) |
| STERNDALE | Composer and conductor William ____ Bennett led the first English performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1854 |
| DELACROIX | Eugene -, French painter of 1854 oil Lion Hunt in Morocco (9) |
| BALAKLAVA | The 1854 charge of the Light Brigade was part of which battle in the Crimea? (9) |
| WISCONSIN | US state in which the Republican Party was founded on March 20 1854 (9) |
| THREONINE | Six lots of this vital acid, including extra tablet, found in 1854 |
| FENCHURCH | ___ Street, small London station changed little externally since its 1854 renovation (9) |
| TIMES | Hard ____, 1854 novel by Charles Dickens (5) |
| HARD | 1854 novel by Charles Dickens featuring the character Thomas Gradgrind |
| HARDX | 1854 Dickens novel about a difficult era |
| THOMASGRADGRIND | First character seen in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854) (6,9) |
| THEFLITCHOFBACON | 1854 novel by W H Ainsworth subtitled The Custom of Dunmow |
| MACNAB | Prince Charles' wife Camilla's great-great-great grandfather who was the Premier of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1856, Sir Allan ___ (b.1798 - d.1862) |
| FITZROY | Captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage who wrote The Weather Book, invented a barometer and founded in 1854 what became the Met Office (7) |
| SOUTH | North And _, Elizabeth Gaskell novel published in 1854-55 (5) |
