| NELL | Girl in "The Old Curiosity Shop" |
| TUCSON | City nicknamed "The Old Pueblo" |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| ELWES | Cary in "The Princess Bride" and "Saw" |
| 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) |
| SAMPSONBRASS | The corrupt attorney in The Old Curiosity Shop |
| LITTLENELL | Nickname of the central character in The Old Curiosity Shop (6,4) |
| HOE | Tool that makes the sound "scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch" in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" |
| PHIZ | Pen name of artist Hablot Knight Browne who co-illustrated Boz's Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop, originally published in Master Humphrey's Clock (4) |
| LINNET | '[P]oor' bird kept in a cage by Little Nell in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) (6) |
| DANIEL | Villainous usurer in 1841 Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (6,5) |
| KITNUBBLES | Neil's friend in The Old Curiosity Shop (3,7) |
| SWAN | Bird that's "a-swimming" in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" |
| FBI | Clarice Starling's employer in "The Silence of the Lambs," in brief |
| TIME | Answer to Gollum's riddle in "The Hobbit" "This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers ..." |
| SAURON | Dark Lord of Mordor, in "The Lord of the Rings" |
| RENE | Russo who played Natasha in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" |
| ARWEN | Daughter of Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" |
| DUO | Bugs and Daffy in "The Iceman Ducketh," e.g. |
