| SNAGSBY | Character in the Charles Dickens novel 'Bleak House' (7) |
| KROOK | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion (5) |
| SUMMERSON | Character who marries Allan Woodcourt in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House |
| ESTHER | Character who marries Allan Woodcourt in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (6,9) |
| INHERIT | Mr -, law-stationer in 1853 Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (7) |
| NUBBLES | Kit, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (7) |
| ESTELLA | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations who marries Bentley Drummle (7) |
| SQUEERS | Wackford, fictional headmaster in the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (7) |
| HAROLDSKIMPOLE | Sponging character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House supposedly based on Leigh Hunt |
| SPENLOW | Dora, child-wife of David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of that name (7) |
| CHARLES | Celebrated author who wrote the 1853 novel Bleak House,_ Dickens (7) |
| QUILP | Daniel, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (5) |
| SMIKE | Dim character in the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (5) |
| WEGG | Silas ___, one-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (4) |
| SILAS | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| ANDABEL | Novel bleak: an end should incorporate article in work of Archer (4,3,4) |
| HOUSE | 1852-1853 Charles Dickens novel, Bleak _ (5) |
| URIAHHEEP | Clerk in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (5,4) |
| MURDSTONE | Edward, wine merchant in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (9) |
| PECKSNIFF | Seth ---, villain in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (9) |
