| QUILP | Daniel, character in the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (5) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest, author of the novel The Old Man and the Sea (9) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| KITNUBBLES | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens |
| NUBBLES | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (3,7) |
| KIT | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (3,7) |
| ATHOS | One of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (5) |
| TIBBS | Virgil, character in the novel In the Heat of the Night (5) |
| GALEN | Fictitious town in the novel 'The Land of Laughs' by Jonathan Carroll (5) |
| LIGHT | Christina, character in the novel Roderick Hudson by Henry James (5) |
| ADELA | Miss Quested, character in the novel A Passage to India (5) |
| FLYTE | Sebastian, character in the novel Brideshead Revisited (5) |
| REBUS | A returning character in the novels of Ian Rankin (5) |
| DELHI | Foreign city food shop, by the sound of it (5) |
| NELL | Little -, character from The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens (4) |
| DANIEL | Villainous usurer in 1841 Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (6,5) |
| LITTLENELL | Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known |
| MUZAK | Sounds to shop by |
| BOLEYN | Dan --, a character in the novel 'The Apes of God' by Wyndham Lewis (6) |
| PROSPERO | A wizard in the novel 'The Face in the Frost' by John Bellairs (8) |
