| WACKFORDSQUEERS | Cruel headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (8,7) |
| SQUEERS | Wackford ?, headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in 1839 Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| NEWMANNOGGS | Ralph Nickleby's clerk in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (6,5) |
| SMIKE | Friend of the title character in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (5) |
| JOSIAHBOUNDERBY | Business associate of Mr Gradgrind in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (6,9) |
| ALBUSDUMBLEDORE | Fictional headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (5,10) |
| NICKLEBY | Charles Dickens' character sent to Dotheboys Hall, Nicholas ... |
| VERISOPHT | Lord Frederick -, character in Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby killed by Sir Mulberry Hawk in a duel (9) |
| DOTHEBOYSHALL | Yorkshire school run by Wackford Squeers in the novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens |
| NICHOLAS | Novel featuring Dotheboys Hall (8) |
| ORPHANAGE | Type of institution in which Oliver Twist is raised in Charles Dickens's novel (9) |
| WACKFORD | ,22 Dotheboys Hall head (Dickens) |
| ADACLARE | Young ward of Chancery in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House who falls in love with Richard Carstone |
| JARNDYCE | Mr ____, guardian of Esther in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (8) |
| UDULL | Which headmaster of Eton in 1537 and tutor to Edward Courtenay in the Tower, is credited with the fi |
| ARNOLD | Thomas, influential headmaster of Rugby School who featured in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days (6) |
| THOMASARNOLD | Headmaster of Rugby School whose style of teaching was described in Tom Brown's School Days (6,6) |
| CAMDEN | Antiquary and former headmaster of Westminster School who is depicted in a bust in Westminster Abbey with one hand on his great survey Britannia (6) |
| UDALL | Nicholas --, 1504-56, dramatist who became headmaster of Eton (5) |
| CREAKLE | Regis --, the headmaster of Salem House in 'David Copperfield' (7) |
