| FRIEND | Our Mutual ___ , Charles Dickens' last completed novel (6) |
| JOHNMARMON | Missing heir to a fortune in Charles Dickens' last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend (1865) (4,6) |
| OURMUTUALFRIEND | The title of Charles Dickens' last completed novel |
| MUTUAL | Our _ Friend, Charles Dickens's last completed novel (6) |
| OUR | "__ Mutual Friend": Dickens' last completed novel |
| DORRIT | Little ___ , Charles Dickens novel (6) |
| WILFER | Bella -, character in 1865 Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend who marries John Rokesmith (6) |
| HIGDEN | Betty --, character in 'Our Mutual Friend' (6) |
| JUDEFAWLEY | Protagonist of Thomas Hardy's last completed novel (4,6) |
| DANIELDERONDA | Last completed novel by English author George Eliot, published in 1876 (6,7) |
| JUDETHEOBSCURE | Thomas Hardy's last completed novel (4,3,7) |
| PERSUASION | Austen's last completed novel, written 1815-16 |
| BOFFIN | Nicodemus ____, in Our Mutual Friend, has been suggested as the source of this word for a scientific or technical expert |
| CANDLESTICKS | Introduction to Charles Dickens' last novel, for romantic light entertainment? |
| EDWINDROOD | Title character in Charles Dickens' last, unfinished, novel (5,5) |
| TIMES | Hard ___, Charles Dickens novel (5) |
| WEGG | Silas ___, one-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (4) |
| SILAS | One-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (5,4) |
| STALE | Uninspired by Dickens' last work of fiction? (5) |
| HARDTIMES | Shortest of the completed novels by Charles Dickens (4,5) |
