| GRADGRIND | Mr Thomas --- school board Superintendent in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (9) |
| THOMASGRADGRIND | The fact-obsessed school board superintendent in Hard Times |
| JOSIAHBOUNDERBY | Business associate of Mr Gradgrind in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (6,9) |
| SLEARY | Circus proprietor in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (6) |
| ORPHANAGE | Type of institution in which Oliver Twist is raised in Charles Dickens's novel (9) |
| INSPECTOR | Superintendent in division has hidden pressure (9) |
| COKETOWN | Fictional mill town in which 1854 Charles Dickens novel Hard Times is set (8) |
| SETH | Sanctimonious architect in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (4,9) |
| JARNDYCE | Mr ____, guardian of Esther in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (8) |
| WEMMICK | Clerk to Mr Jaggers in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (7) |
| URIAH | Mr Heep, clerk in Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield (5) |
| THEMIS | She oversaw justice in the novel Hard Times |
| DICKENS | Charles, author of the novel Hard Times (7) |
| ADACLARE | Young ward of Chancery in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House who falls in love with Richard Carstone |
| WACKFORDSQUEERS | Yorkshire schoolmaster who runs "Dotheboys Hall" in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| GAMP | Sarah ---, nurse in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (4) |
| MICAWBER | Wilkins, character in Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield (8) |
| JOEGARGERY | Blacksmith in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (3,7) |
| SQUEERS | Wackford, character in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (7) |
| NEWMANNOGGS | Ralph Nickleby's clerk in Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (6,5) |
