| PHOEBUS | Captain --, character in Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' (7) |
| QUASIMODO | Name of the titular character in Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' (9) |
| ESMERALDA | Character in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (9) |
| ESMERELDA | Character in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) (9) |
| FANTINE | Mother of Cosette in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (7) |
| VALJEAN | Jean --, protagonist in Victor Hugo's novel 'Les Misarables' (7) |
| PRIVATE | Churchman takes in Victor in place of Mike, a soldier of the lowest rank (7) |
| SCARLET | Captain -, character who battled the Mysterons (7) |
| ANDREWS | Surname of the actress born Julia Elizabeth Wells who starred in Victor Victoria (7) |
| FROLLO | Claude, archdeacon in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback Of Notre- Dame (6) |
| HUNCHBACK | Victor Hugo's The ___ of Notre Dame |
| TOYLAND | "Babes in -" (Victor Herbert operetta) |
| NOTREDAME | Cathedral featured in Victor Hugo's tale of Quasimodo (5,4) |
| NEMO | Captain -; character in Jules Verne's adventure novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island (4) |
| HOOK | Captain -; character in J. M. Barrie's play and novel Peter and Wendy (4) |
| LEELA | One-eyed spaceship captain character in Turanga ___ (5) |
| SHOTOVER | Captain ---, character in Shaw's play Heartbreak House (8) |
| PALM | Sailmaker's equivalent of a tailor's thimble; or, a tree named after the inner surface of the hand due to said plant's leaves being placed in victors' hands in ancient Rome (4) |
| LES | Victor Hugo's book that was the basis of the musical, ... Miserables |
| DANIEL | ___ Radcliffe, James McAvoy's co-star in Victor Frankenstein (6) |
