| ULYSSES | James Joyce novel in which Leo pold Bloom is the protagonist (7) |
| SYNDROME | Down's __, genetic condition which Leo Goskirk was born with in Emmerdale (8) |
| BLOSSOM | Bloom is the first to blubber at bereavement of leading Frenchman (7) |
| NMEX | Its state bloom is the yucca: Abbr. |
| REMINDS | "The sage in bloom; Is like perfume; Deep in the heart of Texas; ... me of; The one I love; Deep in the heart of Texas" |
| LEOPOLD | Protagonist of the 1922 James Joyce novel Ulysses, also known by the pseudonym Henry Flower (7,5) |
| WINSTON | Who is the protagonist of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four? (7,5) |
| CHULBUL | ___ Pandey played by Salman Khan is the protagonist of the Dabangg movie series |
| TEMPEST | Prospero is the protagonist of The ____ |
| ENDERBY | Francis Xavier ____ is the protagonist of four comic novels by Anthony Burgess |
| DRACULA | Famous novel in which Jonathan Harker is the narrator (7) |
| SCARLET | A Study in -; novel in which Arthur Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (7) |
| MATILDA | Roald Dahl novel in which the character Miss Trunchbull appears (7) |
| FINNEGANSWAKE | Which James Joyce novel opens with the second half of the sentence that starts at the very end of the book? (9,4) |
| BLOOM | Protagonist of the 1922 James Joyce novel Ulysses, also known by the pseudonym Henry Flower (7,5) |
| VACUUMCLEANER | In Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958), what kind of salesman is the protagonist, James Wormold? (6,7) |
| ADAMBEDE | In which George Eliot novel is the protagonist a carpenter in Hayslope? (4,4) |
| ARTIST | What completes the title of the James Joyce novel A Portrait of the ___ as a Young Man? (6) |
| LIFFEY | Irish river personified as Anna Livia Plurabelle in the 1939 James Joyce novel Finnegans Wake (6) |
| STEPHENHERO | James Joyce novel published posthumously in 1944 (7,4) |
