| TREACLE | Type of well in which Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie lived in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (7) |
| DWELL | Live where Elsie, Lacie and Tillie did, at the back of beyond? |
| WELLSITUATED | Moderately rich - like Elsie, Lacie and Tillie? |
| WELLCONNECTED | Having influential friends like Elsie, Lacie and Tillie? |
| BLED | Drained fluid from bottom of well in part of garden (4) |
| ARTESIAN | A well in which water rises to the surface by natural pressure through a vertically drilled hole (8) |
| SANANGELO | Texan city well in which Gabriel is trapped? |
| BRIGHTEN | Make light of well in Scottish mountain (8) |
| TENNIEL | Victorian remembered for his cartoons in Punch and illustrations in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (7) |
| DORMOUSE | One of the characters at the tea party in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (8) |
| MARCHHARE | (GKN) Character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland who reappears in Through the Looking-Glass called Haigha (5,4) |
| MOCK | - Turtle; character that appears with the Gryphon in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderlan |
| MOCKTURTLE | Melancholy character featured with the Gryphon in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) (10) |
| CHESHIRECAT | Character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin |
| LOOKINGGLASS | Through The - - - - - -, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (7-5) |
| CHESHIRE | ___ Cat fictional cat with an iconic grin from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| SWISHING | Sibilant movement of air in singular type of well |
| LIMERICK | Name of an Irish city that's also a type of well-known five-line poem (8) |
| ISLE | Piece of land to which Elsie returns unendingly (4) |
| JUBJUBBIRD | Desperate creature in Lewis Carroll's poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark |
