| TINYTIM | Character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (4,3) |
| SCROOGE | 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring Albert Finney in the title role (7) |
| EBENEZER | ___ Scrooge, character in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol (8) |
| CORNHILL | Street in the City of London that Bob Cratchit slides down 20 times in honour of it being Christmas Eve in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol |
| NEGUS | Referred to in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a warming drink of port or wine mixed with hot water, lemons, oranges, spices and sugar (5) |
| BOBCRATCHIT | Scrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (3,8) |
| JACOBMARLEY | Deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) (5,6) |
| FEZZIWIG | charles Dickens: A christmas carol character |
| FAIRYTALES | Books that depict an imaginary tale with a moral lesson like Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: 2 wds. |
| CRATCHIT | Bob ___, character in Dickens' A Christmas Carol (8) |
| MADAMEDEFARGE | French Revolutionary in Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities (6,7) |
| MISER | Ebenezer Scrooge was one in Dickens' A Christmas Carol (5) |
| TIM | He's tiny in Dickens' A Christmas Carol |
| GHOSTS | Four feature in Dickens' A Christmas Carol (6) |
| CHARLESDARNAY | Nephew and successor of the Marquis St. Evremonde in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (1859) (7,6) |
| EBENEZERSCROOGE | Reginald Owen, Alastair Sim, Albert Finney and George C Scott have all played this miser in film versions of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (8,7) |
| BONANZA | Grandma getting into Dickens, a rewarding discovery |
| CAROL | Dickens' "A Christmas ___" |
| VERISOPHT | Lord Frederick -, character in Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby killed by Sir Mulberry Hawk in a duel (9) |
| URIAHHEEP | Character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield who lives in an "umble abode" |
