| PICCADILLY | 1870 novel by Laurence Oliphant subtitled A Fragment of Contemporary Biography |
| CALEB | Novel by Margaret Oliphant subtitled A Tale Of The Puritans (5) |
| FIELD | Novel by Margaret Oliphant subtitled A Tale Of The Puritans (5) |
| THEGIAOUR | Byron poem subtitled "A Fragment of a Turkish Tale" |
| SNATCH | A swift act or thing, such as a hasty grab or catch; a kidnapping or theft; a quick bite to eat; a brief spell of exertion, sleep, time etc; a fragment of a song or a talk; or, a quibble (6) |
| TRISTRAM | --- Shandy, protagonist of a nine-volume 18th Century novel by Laurence Sterne (8) |
| TRISTRAMSHANDY | Protagonist of a digressive novel by Laurence Sterne |
| EDWINDROOD | 'The Mystery of -- --', 1870 novel by Dickens (5,5) |
| SCRIP | Old word for a pilgrim's pouch, a satchel or a small bag; a writing; a fragment of paper; or, a certificate entitling its holder to dividends or shares allocated in a bonus issue (5) |
| CAGEDLION | The ___, 1870 novel by Charlotte M Yonge (5,4) |
| NAUTILUS | Submarine which appears in an 1870 novel by Jules Verne (8) |
| LOTHAIR | 1870 novel by Benjamin Disraeli which expresses his hostility to Catholicism |
| SHANDY | Tristram, central character in an 18c novel by Laurence Sterne (6) |
| CALEBFIELD | 1851 Margaret Oliphant novel subtitled A Tale of the Puritans |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| SEED | Unit of botanical life such as an acorn, bean, conker, kernel, key, nut, pea, pip or stone; a fragment of coral; a bubble in glass; or, a small crystal from which a larger one is grown (4) |
| CRUMB | A mixture of cocoa liquor, milk and sugar to make chocolate; a fragment of biscuit, bread or cake; or, the soft inner part of a loaf (5) |
| NEMO | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in an 1870 novel (4) |
| FINE | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely ___, bestseller by Gail Honeyman soon to be a major film (4) |
| ANECONOMISTISTHE | Start of a take by Laurence J. Peter |
