| TIMES | Age of austerity: what the dickens can be read into that? (4,5) |
| HARD | Age of austerity: what the dickens can be read into that? (4,5) |
| YOUREON | Our energy should be put into that? Agreed! |
| GREAT | High hopes. What the Dickens is that all about? (5,12) |
| EXPECTATIONS | High hopes. What the Dickens is that all about? (5,12) |
| TEC | Dick, private eye, sleuth or Victorian "D", what the dickens could it be? (3) |
| BLEAK | What the dickens! House is so isolated? (5) |
| ASPARTAME | The sweetener in a state of austerity? Me! (9) |
| PLAINTEXT | Clear passage from the Bible that can be read on the computer (5,4) |
| ALLOTMENT | Group with money in a period of austerity getting rented area for cultivation (9) |
| SAMWELLER | Shoeshiner who features in the Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers (3,6) |
| EXCELLENT | Great period of austerity following number-crunching program |
| HEARTLINE | Compassion - sentence that can be read in palm (5,4) |
| HEARTHRUG | Warmer support for cricket in the Dickens canon? (6,3) |
| CAMBRIDGE | The Dickens character Matthew Pocket. Pip's tutor, was educated at which university? (9) |
| MALAYALAM | Indian language that can be read as Arabic? |
| THEFRENCH | Article can be read in Belgium by Italian neighbours (3,6) |
| RAISECAIN | Raise the dickens |
| URIAHHEEP | Villain in the Dickens' novel David Copperfield; also a British rock band formed in London in 1967 (5,4) |
| RUDGE | What is the surname of Barnaby in the title of the Dickens novel? (5) |
