| HESTERPRYNNE | Main character in Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter (6,6) |
| NATHANIEL | Author who wrote the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, _ Hawthorne (9) |
| HAWTHORNE | Nathaniel, author of the novel The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| SCARLET | The _ Letter, 1850 novel by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (7) |
| ORCZY | Who (Baroness Emmusca ___) wrote the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel? (5) |
| ALTONLOCKE | 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement (5,5) |
| SPENLOW | see 5dn, David Copperfield's first wife in the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens |
| THESCARLETLETTER | 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne featuring the character Hester Prynne |
| MICAWBER | Wilkins ___, character in Dickens' 1850 novel David Copperfield (8) |
| DORA | and 8dn, David Copperfield's first wife in the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens |
| LETTER | Demi Moore and Gary Oldman film based on a classic novel, The Scarlet ___ |
| WILKINSMICAWBER | Character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield who believes that "something will turn up" (7,8) |
| HESTER | Mother of Pearl, in an 1850 novel |
| SCARLETLETTER | The ___, 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (7,6) |
| DORASPENLOW | First wife of David Copperfield in a 1850 novel by Charles Dickens (4,7) |
| PENDENNIS | 'The History of --', 1850 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (9) |
| PRISCILLA | Character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel 'The Blithedale Romance' (9) |
| THESCARLET | 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (3,7,6) |
| EASYA | From 2010, a high-school comedy inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (4,1) |
| STIGMA | Hawthorne's "scarlet letter," e.g. |
