| NICODEMUSBOFFIN | Illiterate, goodhearted clerk in Our Mutual Friend |
| PODSNAP | John --, wealthy marine insurance dealer in 'Our Mutual Friend' (7) |
| RIDERHOOD | Villain in 'Our Mutual Friend' (9) |
| ROGUERIDERHOOD | Villain in "Our Mutual Friend" |
| HIGDEN | Betty --, character in 'Our Mutual Friend' (6) |
| AMIGO | Sort out bits of grammar analysis in Our Mutual Friend (5) |
| WEGG | Silas, character in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (4) |
| BOFFIN | Nicodemus ____, in Our Mutual Friend, has been suggested as the source of this word for a scientific or technical expert |
| WRAYBURN | Eugene --, character in the Dickens novel 'Our Mutual Friend' (8) |
| SILAS | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| JENNYWREN | Dolls' dressmaker in the novel Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens whose real name is Fanny Cleaver |
| 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) |
| COMPANIONVOLUME | "Our Mutual Friend", say, which makes the set? (9,6) |
| VENEERING | Social climbing couple (Our Mutual Friend) |
| DICKENS | Author of Our Mutual Friend, d. 1870 (7) |
| THEBESTOFREFERENCES | "Money and goods are certainly ____" (Our Mutual Friend) |
| KINDER | More benevolent or goodhearted (6) |
| ROUGHDIAMOND | Uncouth but goodhearted person (5,7) |
| FAGIN | Villain who would fain be goodhearted? (5) |
