| 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) |
| QUILP | Daniel, character in the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (5) |
| LITTLENELL | Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known |
| DANIEL | Villainous usurer in 1841 Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (6,5) |
| NELL | Little -, character from The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens (4) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| BARNABYRUDGE | 1841 novel by Charles Dickens which has the subtitle 'A Tale of the Riots of Eighty' (7,5) |
| GRANDDAUGHTER | August issue gives shop-owner's description of Nell Trent |
| OLDCURIOSITY | The ___, 1841 Charles Dickens novel whose main character is Nell Trent (3,9,4) |
| MCANDREW | Surname of Nell, the former model in the firstever series of I'm A Celeb in 2002 (8) |
| OLDCURIOSITYSHOP | Novel by Charles Dickens, main character Nell Trent (3,9,4) |
| THEOLDCURIOSITYSHOP | Charles Dickens novel featuring the character Nell Trent (3,3,9,4) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest, author of the novel The Old Man and the Sea (9) |
| SHOP | 'The -', 1841 novel by Charles Dickens (3,9,4) |
| ICELOLLY | Local diamonds and money paid for in the shop by sucker in the sun (3,5) |
| SOAR | Major tributary of the River Trent in the East Midlands (4) |
| MARLIN | Fish in 1952 Ernest Hemingway novel The Old Man and the Sea |
| SEA | Ernest Hemingway won a Nobel Prize in 1954 for his novel The Old Man And The ... |
