| JENNYWREN | Dolls' dressmaker in the novel Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens whose real name is Fanny Cleaver |
| WEGG | Silas, one-legged character in the novel Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (4) |
| DICKENS | Author of the novel Our Mutual Friend (7) |
| PODSNAP | A pompous self-satisfied man in 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens (7) |
| NINON | Dressmaker in the Province, not in Paris |
| MICE | Cinderella's tiny dressmakers, in the 1950 Disney film |
| GENET | Jean, author of the novel Our Lady of the Flowers (5) |
| AMIES | Sir Hardy ___, the influential fashion designer appointed Queen's dressmaker in 1955 (5) |
| SILAS | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| WILFER | Bella ?, character in 1865 Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend who marries John Rokesmith |
| JOHNMARMON | Missing heir to a fortune in Charles Dickens' last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend (1865) (4,6) |
| WRAYBURN | Eugene --, character in the Dickens novel 'Our Mutual Friend' (8) |
| THEMYSTERYOF | Unfinished novel by Charles Dickens whose characters include John Jasper and Rosa Bud (3,7,2,5,5) |
| BLEAK | ___ House, novel by Charles Dickens whose characters include Esther Summerson and John Jarndyce (5) |
| EDWINDROOD | Unfinished novel by Charles Dickens whose characters include John Jasper and Rosa Bud (5,5) |
| CAROL | A Christmas ___ 1843 novella by Charles Dickens whose plot takes place over a single day |
| MANSFIELD | 1814 novel by Jane Austen in which the protagonist is Fanny Price (9,4) |
| PARK | 1814 novel by Jane Austen in which the protagonist is Fanny Price (9,4) |
| FROUFROU | Four by four convertible - the one used by the dressmakers, in a decorative sense (8) |
| VACUUMCLEANER | In Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958), what kind of salesman is the protagonist, James Wormold? (6,7) |
