| ALLTHEYEARROUND | Periodical literary magazine, founded by Charles Dickens, in which his A Tale of Two Cities was first published |
| ALL | ___ the Year Round ; magazine founded by Charles Dickens that featured a number of Christmas tales (3) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| OLIVERTWIST | Novel by Charles Dickens in which Mr Bumble, the beadle, appears (6,5) |
| ALLOWAY | Village of southern Scotland in which Robert Burns was born in 1759, and in which his poem ' Tam o' Shanter' is set (7) |
| DANSTEVENS | Portrayer of Charles Dickens in "The Man Who Invented Christmas" who's a big fan of Dickens novels in real life: 2 wds. |
| SKETCHESBYBOZ | Collection of short stories 'Illustrative of Every-Day Life And Every-Day People' published by Charles Dickens in 1836 (8,2,3) |
| URIAHHEEP | Character created by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield who makes frequent references to his own "'umbleness" |
| BOZ | Pseudonym used by Charles Dickens in his contributions to the Morning Chronicle (3) |
| ROTTERDAM | Largely destroyed in the Second World War, which of the Netherlands' cities was chartered in the 14th century and is now one of the largest ports in the world? (9) |
| NING | Who is this gymnast, who won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which, incidentally, was the first Olympics in which his country was taking part (it has now become a sporting powerhouse)? (4) |
| LI | Who is this gymnast, who won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which, incidentally, was the first Olympics in which his country was taking part (it has now become a sporting powerhouse)? (2) |
| ENCOUNTER | Political and literary magazine founded in 1953, and originally edited by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol |
| LIFEBOAT | 1944 Hitchcock movie in which his picture is shown in a newspaper on board |
| ARK | Noah's huge boat in which his family and two of each creature stayed during and survived the flood |
| SPLASH | Tom Hanks comedy in which his character falls in love with a mermaid (6) |
| GRANTA | Literary magazine founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University |
| ACHAEANLEAGUE | Which alliance between Greek cities was formed in 281 BCE by the people of Dyme, Patras, Pharae and Tritaia and lasted for over 100 years? (7,6) |
| ACHILLES | A Greek warrior bathed in a magical river but for one extremity by which his mother held him (8) |
| AREPARTANDPARCELOF | "Hackney-coaches ____ the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and numbered by the wisdom of Parliament" (Dickens, in Sketches by Boz) |
