| EDMONDDANTES | Protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo |
| DARTAGNAN | Protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers based on the real-life Charles de Batz de Castelmore (1611-73) |
| EDMOND | ___ Dantes, title character of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (6) |
| DANTES | see 1dn, Title character of 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo |
| ATHOS | The oldest of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers |
| ALEXANDREDUMAS | French author who wrote the adventure novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (9,5) |
| CRISTO | Alexandre Dumas's adventure classic of betrayal and revenge, The Count of Monte ... |
| ARAMIS | One of the characters created by Alexandre Dumas in his 1844 novel The Three Musketeers (6) |
| DANTE | Alexandre Dumas' novel, The Count Of ... Cristo |
| ALEXANDRE | Author of the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, _ Dumas (9) |
| MONTECRISTO | Alexandre Dumas novel, The Count Of ... (5,6) |
| MUSKETEERS | The Three ---, 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas recounting the adventures of d'Artagnan (10) |
| MARTIN | The Life and Adventures of ___, 1844 novel by Charles Dickens featuring the character Tom Pinch (6,1 |
| CHUZZLEWIT | The Life and Adventures of -, 1844 novel by Charles Dickens featuring the character Tom Pinch (10) |
| AURIOL | 1844 novel by William Harrison Ainsworth subtitled The Elixir of Life |
| DISRAELI | Benjamin, author of the 1844 novel Coningsby (8) |
| MUSKETEER | European soldier such as Athos, Porthos or Aramis in the works of Alexandre Dumas (9) |
| CONINGSBY | A Lincolnshire village - or an 1844 novel by Disraeli? (9) |
| THECHIMES | 1844 novel by Charles Dickens featuring Toby Veck (3,6) |
| COMTE | Dumas's Monte Cristo, e.g.: Fr. |
