| UNCLETOM | Title character of a 1852 work by Harriet Beecher Stowe (5,3) |
| TRISTRAM | 1852 work by Matthew Arnold from the collection Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (8,3,6) |
| DRED | ----: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (4) |
| CABIN | 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled Life Among the Lowly (5,4,5) |
| UNCLETOMS | 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled Life Among the Lowly (5,4,5) |
| UNCLETOMSCABIN | 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (5,4,5) |
| UNCLE | _ Tom's Cabin, 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (5) |
| TOMS | 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (5,4,5) |
| LOLANTHE | Strephon's mother, the title character of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta (8) |
| GARFIELD | Fictional lasagna-loving cat who is the title character of a comic strip |
| TOMSCABIN | Classic story by Harriet Beecher Stowe (5,4,5) |
| FEMINIST | T-shirt slogan that was created by and worn by Harriet Harman during PMQs (4,2,4,1,8,5,4) |
| EXORCIST | Title character of a Blatty novel |
| HARLOWE | Clarissa ?, title character of a 1748 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled the History of a Young Lady |
| CINDERELLA | The title character of a folk tale who, with the help of a fairy godmother, marries a prince (10) |
| UNCLEREMUS | Fictional title character of a collection of folk tales by Joel Chandler Harris (5,5) |
| JILL | Title character of a series of pony books for children written by Yorkshire-born Ruby Ferguson (4) |
| LAYLA | Title character of a song inspired by both a seventh-century Persian story and George Harrison's then-wife |
| ORRS | "The Pearl of ___ Island" (Harriet Beecher Stowe novel) |
| SIMONLEGREE | Slaver and plantation owner in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |