| OURMUTUALFRIEND | Dickens's final complete novel |
| NINTH | Beethoven's final complete symphony, composed between 1822-1824, which includes the Ode to Joy (5) |
| DROOD | Edwin in Dickens's final novel |
| THOROUGH | Complete novel hot and unrefined (8) |
| SHEER | Complete novel on retiring |
| PERSUASION | Jane Austen's last complete novel |
| OUR | - Mutual Friend ; Charles Dickens' last complete novel (3) |
| ADVENTURES | 'The -', last complete novel of William Thackeray (10) |
| POE | 19th-century mystery writer with just one complete novel |
| ARENT | "Aunts ___ Gentlemen" (P. G. Wodehouse's last complete novel) |
| MUTUALFRIEND | Last complete novel by Charles Dickens, 'Our -' (6,6) |
| OFPHILIP | 'The -', last complete novel of William Thackeray (2,6) |
| EDWIN | Dickenss The Mystery of ___ Drood |
| PICKWICK | Title character of Dickens's first novel |
| SETH | and 2dn, Sanctimonious architect in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (4,9) |
| JOHNJASPER | Choirmaster and uncle of the title character in Charles Dickens's unfinished novel The Mystery of Ed |
| OLIVERTWIST | Charles Dickens's famous novel and its poor boy title character (6,5) |
| GRADGRIND | Mr Thomas --- school board Superintendent in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (9) |
| SMIKE | Character befriended by Nicholas Nickleby in Dickens's novel (5) |
| NICHOLASNICKLEBY | Charles Dickens's third novel, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839 (8,8) |
