| QUILP | Daniel, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (5) |
| NUBBLES | Kit, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (7) |
| SMIKE | Dim character in the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby (5) |
| SILAS | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| KROOK | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion (5) |
| DANIEL | Villainous usurer in 1841 Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (6,5) |
| NELL | Little ____, principal character in Charles Dickens' novel The Old Curiosity Shop (4) |
| PINCH | Tom, devoted admirer and assistant to Pecksniff in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit (5) |
| FAGIN | Receiver of stolen goods in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist (5) |
| WEGG | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| ESTELLA | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations who marries Bentley Drummle (7) |
| SNAGSBY | Character in the Charles Dickens novel 'Bleak House' (7) |
| EDWIN | Dickens novel, The Mystery Of ... Drood |
| KITNUBBLES | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens |
| KIT | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (3,7) |
| LITTLENELL | Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| URIAHHEEP | Clerk in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (5,4) |
| 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) |
