| CRATCHIT | Bob, character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol (8) |
| SCROOGE | Main character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol (7) |
| SAWYER | Bob --, character in 'The Pickwick Papers' (6) |
| EBENEZER | --- Scrooge, character in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (8) |
| BISHOP | Mulled wine (usually made with port), mentioned in Dickens's A Christmas Carol |
| TINYTIM | Who is the crippled boy in Dickens's A Christmas Carol? (4,3) |
| MARLEY | Scrooge's late partner whose ghost appears in Dickens's A Christmas Carol (6) |
| BOBCRATCHIT | Character in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (3,8) |
| UMBRELLA | Named after Mrs Gamp in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, what carried thing is a gamp? (8) |
| HORTENSE | Lady Dedlock's maid in Dickens's Bleak House (8) |
| BULLSEYE | Dog in Dickens's Oliver Twist owned by Bill Sikes (5,3) |
| URIAHHEEP | Long-lasting English band named after a character in Dickens's "David Copperfield" |
| ESTELLA | Female character in Dickens's Great Expectations (7) |
| ALLEN | Arabella, character in Dickens's Pickwick Papers (5) |
| HEEP | Uriah, character in Dickens's David Copperfield (4) |
| PECKSNIFF | Seth, character in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (9) |
| TWO | Charles Dickens's "A Tale of ___ Cities" |
| GUPPY | A law clerk at Kenge and Carboy in Dickens's Bleak House or, a rainbow-coloured millionfish (5) |
| SMIKE | Character befriended by Nicholas Nickleby in Dickens's novel (5) |
| FAGIN | Leader of a gang of thieves in Dickens's Oliver Twist (5) |
