| FIELDING | Henry -, novelist who wrote Tom Jones (8) |
| HUGHES | Novelist who wrote Tom Brown's School Days and Tom Brown at Oxford (6) |
| JAMES | Henry -; novelist who wrote The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove and What Maisie Knew (5) |
| HARTFORD | Where Twain wrote "Tom Sawyer" |
| THWACKUM | Tutor of Tom Jones in the Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones (8) |
| WELSHMEN | Richard Burton, Barry John, Cliff Jones, Sir Tom Jones etc (8) |
| PUSSYCAT | What's New ___?, Tom Jones song (8) |
| WELSHMAN | Maybe Tom Jones, when slam dancing (8) |
| LAUGHING | Tom Jones explained the death of Delilah, "She stood there ..." |
| WHATSNEW | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pussycat?, song recorded by Welsh singer Tom Jones in 1965 (5,3) |
| HENRYFIELDING | 18th Century English novelist and dramatist whose works included Tom Jones (5,8) |
| FONDLING | Playing with Tom Jones, say, not for all to see (8) |
| WELSH | Like Tom Jones or Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| TJUNCTION | Turning point when Tom Jones initially encounters flattery (1-8) |
| HENRYFIELDINGBALLS | 'Tom Jones' novelist catching pop flies? |
| OSBORNE | Playwright who won an Oscar for the "Tom Jones" screenplay |
| SOPHIA | Heroine of 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (6,7) |
| WESTERN | Sophia, character in the Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones (7) |
| BLIFIL | Nephew of Squire Allworthy in 1749 Henry Fielding novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (6) |
| SOPHIAWESTERN | Heroine, and eventual wife of the title character, in Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) |
