| NOSTROMO | 1904 Joseph Conrad novel featuring the character Charles Gould (8) |
| LORDJIM | 1900 Joseph Conrad novel featuring the ship the Patna (4,3) |
| CAPNERI | 1904 Joseph Lincoln book subtitled "A Story of the Coast" |
| PALEFIRE | Novel by Vladimir Nabokov featuring the character Charles Kinbote (4,4) |
| SABOTAGE | Alfred Hitchcock film based on the Joseph Conrad novel The Secret Agent (8) |
| DARKNESS | Hear t of ___, Joseph Conrad novel (8) |
| ANOBODY | 'The ---', novel by the Grossmith brothers featuring the character Charles Pooter (1,6) |
| DIARYOF | 'The ---', novel by the Grossmith brothers featuring the character Charles Pooter (5,2) |
| OUTCAST | Carol Reed directed Trevor Howard in the movie based on a Joseph Conrad novel, ... Of The Islands |
| COSTAGUANA | Fictional Latin American state in the Joseph Conrad novel Nostromo (10) |
| AGENT | BBC adaptation of 1907 Joseph Conrad novel, The Secret ___ (5) |
| SECRET | 2016 TV series based on a Joseph Conrad novel, The ------ Agent (6) |
| HEARTOFDARKNESS | Joseph Conrad novel (5,2,8) |
| ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 1859 novel by Charles Dickens featuring characters Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
| ATALE | 1859 novel by Charles Dickens featuring characters Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
| OFTWOCITIES | see 4ac, 1859 novel by Charles Dickens featuring characters Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
| VICAR | Profession of the Emmerdale character Charles Anderson (5) |
| LORD | "___ Jim" (Joseph Conrad novel) |
| VICTORY | 1915 Joseph Conrad novel |
| BRETT | Author whose character Charles Paris was played by Bill Nighy in a series of BBC Radio 4 productions (5) |
