| CLAIRETOMALIN | Biographer of Austen, Dickens and Wollstonecraft, amongst others (6,7) |
| ASSEMBLYROOMS | Bath's social facilities, mentioned in the novels of Austen and Dickens (8,5) |
| ANTONIAFRASER | Historical biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell, who also created Jemima Shore, the investigative journalist (7,6) |
| DENTALSURGEON | ... healer of canines, amongst others (6,7) |
| CLAIRE | Acclaimed biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. (6,7) |
| DIEANOTHERDAY | Sat, amongst others, by exit before one more film (3,7,3) |
| MARY | __ Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) (4) |
| GODWIN | William ---, the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley (6) |
| DESKS | Bureaus, ecritoires, secretaires and other such furnishings, such as the standing types used by the likes of Churchill, Dickens and Woolf (5) |
| PIPEMMA | Afternoon on the radio brings a Dickens and an Austen character |
| NEARS | Conclusions of Austen are anathema: another actress comes close |
| ANGER | Emotion at centre of Austen novel? |
| SENSIBILITY | Emotional response to second part of Austen title (11) |
| ITCH | Unsatisfied desire of Austen struggling with channel (7,4) |
| UNSATED | Unsatisfied desire of Austen struggling with channel (7,4) |
| COMEUPTOSCRATCH | Approach Dickens and meet standard (4,2,2,7) |
| OLIVER | Character in Dickens and Hardy |
| DOYLE | Illustrator for Punch, Dickens and Ruskin, Victorian artist Richard 'Dickie' ... |
| UPTHEGOOSE | Surrender Christmas present from Dickens and die (4,2,3,5) |
| GIVE | Surrender Christmas present from Dickens and die (4,2,3,5) |
