| OLIVERTWIST | Charles Dickens's famous novel and its poor boy title character (6,5) |
| THEBORROWERS | Novel and its library readers? (3,9) |
| PYRENEAN | In Cecile Aubry's novel and its film adaptations, Belle is Sebastian's ____ mountain dog |
| POLLYANNA | Eternally optimistic heroine of a 1913 children's novel, and its sequel, by US author Eleanor H. Porter (9) |
| WHITTINGTON | Dick ---, pantomime in which a poor boy sets out for London to make his fortune (11) |
| WARANDPEACE | Famous novel by Leo Tolstoy (3,3,5) |
| KANEANDABEL | Jeffrey Archer's most famous novel? (4,3,4) |
| BIOGRAPHY | Poor boy and I hold graph of life story (9) |
| NORTHANGERABBEY | Poor boy near the barn digesting start of great novel |
| THEBOXER | Simon and Garfunkel ballad that begins 'I am just a poor boy' (3,5) |
| MASTER | Boy's title or to become highly skilled in (6) |
| ROBROY | Title character in a famous novel by Sir Walter Scott (3,3) |
| ISA | "There ... house in New Orleans; They call the Rising Sun; And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy |
| TICKETYBOO | Poor boy with nothing gets a pass that's fine (7-3) |
| BADLYOFF | Poor boy -- lad's shattered by fines (5,3) |
| ORPHAN | Poor boy regularly said to be upper-class? |
| THANKGOODNESS | Sets dog on poor boy inside, fortunately (5,8) |
| CCR | "Willy and the Poor Boys" band, familiarly |
| DOWNONTHECORNER | CCR hit about Willy and the Poor Boys |
| RESIT | Concerned with its poor attempt to get through again? (5) |
