| KITNUBBLES | Nell Trent's friend in Dickens' e Old Curiosity Shop (3,7) |
| BIODEGRADABLE | Such a material will decompose naturally, i.e. old bread bag, perhaps (13) |
| BOILER | This did for bird (i.e. old) (6) |
| LITTLENELL | Miss Trent in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (6,4) |
| NELL | Fred Trent's sister in The Old Curiosity Shop (4) |
| NUBBLES | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (3,7) |
| KIT | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (3,7) |
| LINNET | '[P]oor' bird kept in a cage by Little Nell in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) (6) |
| QUILP | Daniel, character in the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (5) |
| DANIEL | Villainous usurer in 1841 Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop (6,5) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| SAMPSONBRASS | The corrupt attorney in The Old Curiosity Shop |
| PHIZ | Pen name of artist Hablot Knight Browne who co-illustrated Boz's Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop, originally published in Master Humphrey's Clock (4) |
| DICKSWIVELLER | Old Curiosity Shop character who educates and later marries "the Marchioness" |
| SAFETYNET | Vault over River Trent's estuary? Tightrope walkers fall in it (6,3) |
| ENTRUSTS | In confidence gives us Trent's mixture (8) |
| LAST | Trent's ___ Case by E.C. Bentley (1913) |
| OLIO | Old curiosity shop stock |
| TOTTER | What makes Trent's last marine mammal stagger? (6) |
| BENTLEY | Edmund Clerihew ___, author of 1913 novel Trent's Last Case (7) |
