| EDWINDROOD | Titular character of the last novel by Charles Dickens (5,5) |
| UNCAS | Title character of The Last of the Mohicans |
| THEREIVERS | ___: A Reminiscence the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| OURMUTUALFRIEND | Last novel by Charles Dickens, published 1865 (3,6,6) |
| MUTUAL | Our _ Friend, last novel by Charles Dickens (6) |
| LADYCHATTERLEYSLOVER | The last novel by DH Lawrence |
| GODHELPTHECHILD | The last novel by Toni Morrison |
| PERSUASION | The last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, published after her death (10) |
| ADDAMS | Surname of the titular character of the Netflix series 'Wednesday' (6) |
| PIE | Specialty of the titular character of the musical "Waitress" |
| GLORIANA | Titular character of the English epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590-6) (8) |
| CURTAIN | ---: Poirot's Last Case, the last novel published by Agatha Christie (7) |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot, published in 1876; the last novel she completed (6,7) |
| IAGO | Shakespeare villain who has more lines than the titular character of the play he appears in |
| LADY | The last novel of DH Lawrence, _ Chatterley's Lover (4) |
| THECASTLE | The last novel of Franz Kafka (3,6) |
| TITUSALONE | Last novel in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy |
| LITTLELORDFAUNTLEROY | Cedric Errol is the titular character of this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| STEALTH | Secretive behaviour in the last novel (7) |
| MRMOTO | The last novel featuring him was "Stopover: Tokyo" |
