| FLASHMAN | Character in the novel 'Tom Brown's School Days' by Thomas Hughes (8) |
| EAST | Harry "Scud" -, character in Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (4) |
| ARNOLD | Thomas, influential headmaster of Rugby School who featured in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days (6) |
| GEORGEARTHUR | Room-mate of Tom Brown in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (6,6) |
| THOMASHUGHES | Author of the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (6,6) |
| TOMBROWN | Who was bullied by Harry Flashman in an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes? (3,5) |
| CHAPTERS | Fellows welcoming most of the academic period in Tom Brown's School Days, for instance (8) |
| FIELDING | Henry, English author noted for the novel Tom Jones (8) |
| SVENGALI | A sinister controlling figure, originally a character in the novel Trilby (8) |
| SCYTHROP | Character in the novel Nightmare Abbey (8) |
| PASTORAL | A poem from the old days, by Goldman (8) |
| KEELEHAL | Punish sailors in old days by sounding like Collett engine 5903! (8) |
| RUGBY | Team game or sport invented at the school portrayed in Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (5) |
| TIMELIFE | Inversion of all one's days by periodical corporation (4,4) |
| TIBBS | Virgil, character in the novel In the Heat of the Night (5) |
| TOMBROWNS | 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes (3,6,6,4) |
| TOO | Brown's Schooldays, novel by Thomas Hughes (3) |
| SCHOOLDAYS | 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes (3,6,6,4) |
| HUGHES | Author of Tom Brown's School Days, a novel set at the Rugby School for boys that was adapted into a television film with Alex Pettyfer and Stephen Fry (6) |
| PHILEAS | - Fogg; protagonist in the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (7) |
