| OURMUTUALFRIEND | Victorian novel in which Spooner solicits orange healer? (3,6,6) |
| BLOCKBUSTER | Big film in which Spooner makes antelope utter vain boasts (11) |
| MAD | The sort of house in which Spooner claimed he had mouse? Sounds wild! (3) |
| RACETRACK | Locate framework in which Spooner bets on horses |
| CONVERSATIONIST | I like to exchange views on Tess, Victorian novel |
| ROEDEER | Animal for which Spooner may have had money back |
| BALLCOCKS | From which Spooner might have phoned water regulators? |
| EYRE | "Jane ___'s Purse: Women's Queer Economic Desire in the Victorian Novel" (Victorian Literature and Culture article) |
| MARYBARTON | Romany wry about Simpson in Victorian novel (4,6) |
| NORTHANDSOUTH | Victorian novel delivered by mouth in 26 (5,3,5) |
| SCHEME | Plot and start of chapter in Victorian novel given by this writer |
| TWIST | Don't stick a hero in a Victorian novel (5) |
| LORNADOONE | Archaic forgotten activity one observed in Victorian novel |
| FLOSS | Silk flower in Victorian novel |
| TRILBY | Popular Victorian novel by George du Maurier, the stage adaptation of which lent its name to a style of men's hat (6) |
| ERIC | Fine boy in Victorian novel |
| VANDALS | V5 Take a minute, working with weight for Victorian novel (9) |
| PHINEASFINN | Victorian novel, mostly simple, covered by two N Europeans, one heard |
| CRANFORD | Victorian novel Conrad frequently reinvented (8) |
| ASHEN | Pale article about Victorian novel (5) |
