| FLASHMAN | Harry ---, character in Thomas Hughes's novel Tom Brown's School Days (8) |
| ARNOLD | Thomas, influential headmaster of Rugby School who featured in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days (6) |
| BROWN | Surname of Thomas Hughes's Rugby schoolboy character, Tom (5) |
| HOTSPUR | Harry, character in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part I (7) |
| BERTRAM | Harry, character in Walter Scott's Guy Mannering (7) |
| POTTER | Harry ****** , character first played on film in 2001 by Daniel Radcliffe (6) |
| CHAPTERS | Fellows welcoming most of the academic period in Tom Brown's School Days, for instance (8) |
| EVERDENE | Bathsheba, character in Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
| EAST | Harry "Scud" -, character in Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (4) |
| EUSTACIA | ___ Vye, character in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (8) |
| FIELDING | Henry, English author noted for the novel Tom Jones (8) |
| RUGBY | Team game or sport invented at the school portrayed in Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (5) |
| HUGHES | Author of Tom Brown's School Days, a novel set at the Rugby School for boys that was adapted into a television film with Alex Pettyfer and Stephen Fry (6) |
| THOMASHUGHES | Author of Tom Brown's School Days, a semi-biographical novel set at Rugby School (6,6) |
| THOMASARNOLD | Headmaster of Rugby School whose style of teaching was described in Tom Brown's School Days (6,6) |
| SHEPARD | Artist who illustrated editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, The Secret Garden and Tom Brown's School Days (7) |
| GEORGEARTHUR | Room-mate of Tom Brown in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (6,6) |
| ARKIN | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| BLUE | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| GIANTS | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
