| ELIZABETHBENNET | Protagonist in Pride and Prejudice, who wishes to marry for love (9,6) |
| JANEBENNET | Character in Pride and Prejudice who marries Charles Bingley (4,6) |
| GEORGEWICKHAM | Character in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice who marries Lydia Bennet (6,7) |
| CORSET | Assumed by one who wishes to be in good physical shape (6) |
| HATEMAIL | Post unsuitable for someone who wishes to be universally loved? (4,4) |
| PIP | Nickname of the orphan in Dickens's Great Expectations who wishes to become a gentleman (3) |
| FAIRTREATMENT | What the girl who wishes to be a blonde hopes to receive? (4,9) |
| FORTUNEHUNTER | Person seeking to marry for money (7-6) |
| STEERINGWHEEL | Handled by one who wishes to do a good turn on the road (8-5) |
| AGAIN | Zac Efron film about a guy who wishes to rewrite his life, 17 ___ (5) |
| WANNABE | A person who wishes to be like someone else (7) |
| ROCKINGCHAIR | Used by one who wishes to encourage the motion while the sitting takes place! (7,5) |
| LONGER | One who wishes to be less short (6) |
| PURIST | One who wishes to preserve a practice's true essence |
| GOLDDIG | To marry for economic gain |
| COLLINS | Term for a bread-and-butter letter expressing thanks for hospitality that takes its name from Jane Austen's obsequious and pompously wordy clergyman, who sends a notable example in Pride and Prejudice |
| CANDIDATE | One standing who wishes to sit? |
| MATT | ___ Smith, Dr Who and The Crown star, also 63D's ex, who appeared with her in Pride And Prejudice and Zombies (4) |
| HOMEGIRL | Young woman who wishes for a husband, children and happiness therewith (4,4) |
| COMMA | Feature of Peter, Paul and Marry, for one |
