| RENTCOLLECTOR | Occupation of Mr Pancks in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (4-9) |
| LITTLEDORRIT | Mr. Pancks, Mr. Meagles, and Tattycoram? |
| BAKER | Occupation of Mr Bun in the card game Happy Families (5) |
| LITTLE | Novel by Charles Dickens featuring rent-collector Pancks (6,6) |
| DORRIT | Novel by Charles Dickens featuring rent-collector Pancks (6,6) |
| ANASTASIARUGG | Debt collector's daughter in Little Dorrit |
| ARTHURCLENNAM | Character who married the titular heroine of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit (1857) (6,7) |
| MERDLE | Mrs, mother of Edmund Sparkler in Little Dorrit (6) |
| HENRYGOWAN | Feckless artist who marries Minnie Meagles in Little Dorrit (5,5) |
| DEL | David Jason's boy has an upsetting part in Little Dorrit (3) |
| LED | What the captain did, in "Little Dorrit" (3) |
| TOMCOURTENAY | Mr Dorrit in 2008 TV miniseries Little Dorrit (3,9) |
| AMY | Title character in "Little Dorrit" |
| DECIMUSBARNACLE | Circumlocution Office bigwig in "Little Dorrit" |
| DAUGHTERLY | Like little Dorrit developing extremes of unwonted lethargy |
| NEEDLECRAFT | Talent shown by Little Dorrit to provoke arguments with cunning |
| FOY | Claire ?, actress who played the title role in 2008 BBC TV drama Little Dorrit |
| DICKENS | British writer of novels including Little Dorrit and Bleak House (7) |
| ALEC | Actor Guinness of "Little Dorrit" |
| ALYSSUM | Sweet - - - - - - -, popular bedding plant such as 'Little Dorrit' or 'Snowdrift' (7) |
