| EATANSWILL | Scene of the parliamentary elections in 'The Pickwick Papers' (10) |
| DEBS | Eugene, Socialist Party of America candidate in five US presidential elections in the early 20th centurv (4) |
| ROUNDHEADS | Members of the Parliamentary party in the English Civil War (10) |
| SERJEANTBUZFUZ | Barrister who represents Mrs Bardell in her suit against Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers by C |
| SAM | Forename of a cockney bootblack in The Pickwick Papers, after whom the term "Wellerism" derives (3) |
| INSANDOUTS | All the details of a parliamentary election result? (3,3,4) |
| EPIC | Heroic tale in the Pickwick Papers |
| DINGLEYDELL | Place featuring in The Pickwick Papers |
| SAWYER | Bob --, character in 'The Pickwick Papers' (6) |
| NATHANIELWINKLE | Character whose clumsiness with guns is a running joke in The Pickwick Papers |
| SAMUELSLUMKEY | Candidate in The Pickwick Papers |
| SNODGRASS | Character in The Pickwick Papers |
| WHITEPAPER | Phew, it's typed up and on the copier with the parliamentary report (5,5) |
| JAMESHAYTER | Actor who played Samuel Pickwick in the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers and was the original narrator of the TV adverts for Mr Kipling cakes (5,6) |
| ROUNDHEAD | Supporter of the Parliamentary party in the English Civil War (9) |
| OLIVER | - Cromwell, leader of the Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War (6) |
| DULWICH | Suburb of London to which Samuel Pickwick retires at the end of The Pickwick Papers |
| PRIMARY | Elementary school the venue for an election in the US (7) |
| RUNNINGMATE | Candidate for a secondary position in an election (in the US) (7.4) |
| DICKENS | He wrote serialized novels beginning with The Pickwick Papers, and his name was sometimes used to describe the squalid conditions in which the lower classes lived. |
