| SNAGSBY | Mr ?, law-stationer in 1853 Charles Dickens novel Bleak House |
| HOUSE | 1852-1853 Charles Dickens novel, Bleak _ (5) |
| SUMMERSON | Character who marries Allan Woodcourt in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House |
| ESTHER | Character who marries Allan Woodcourt in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (6,9) |
| HAROLDSKIMPOLE | Sponging character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House supposedly based on Leigh Hunt |
| KROOK | Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion (5) |
| JARNDYCE | Mr ____, guardian of Esther in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (8) |
| BLEAK | 1853 Charles Dickens novel featuring the characters Ada Clare and Lady Dedlock (5,5) |
| ADACLARE | Young ward of Chancery in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House who falls in love with Richard Carstone |
| TULKINGHORN | Lawyer to Sir Leicester Dedlock in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (11) |
| CHARLES | Celebrated author who wrote the 1853 novel Bleak House,_ Dickens (7) |
| BUCKET | Inspector --, a detective in the novel 'Bleak House' (6) |
| PREJUDGE | Already assume there's good in Mr Law after bad rep (8) |
| JUDE | Mr Law, starred in the movie remakes of Sleuth and Alfie (4) |
| FEZZIWIG | Mr ?, character in Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol for whom Scrooge worked as an apprentice (8) |
| HYPATIA | 1853 Charles Kingsley novel (7) |
| KANE | Novel bleak: an end should incorporate article in work of 23 (4,3,4) |
| ANDABEL | Novel bleak: an end should incorporate article in work of Archer (4,3,4) |
| KANEANDABEL | Novel bleak: an end should incorporate article in work of 23 |
| TWICETHEMAN | New thematic approach for Mr, Mr? (5,3,3) |
