| HUMBERT | see 1dn, Literary villain, one requesting a lift across northern suspension bridge, heading for trouble (7,7) |
| KIDNAPS | Steals person's goat on bridge, heading west (7) |
| SPANK | Hit bottom of bridge heading to Kansas? (5) |
| HAILING | ___ a taxi, requesting a cab driver stop and give one a ride (7) |
| TRUNKS | Chests for conveying/storing one's personal effects; an old word for telescopes or peashooters; the game trou-madame; or, speaking tubes (6) |
| TLDR | Modern Internet abbreviation requesting a summary for a long piece of text |
| LONGJOHN | 9, vile 9, are reportedly for literary villain (4,4,6) |
| SILVER | 9, vile 9, are reportedly for literary villain (4,4,6) |
| IAGO | Harold Bloom book about a literary villain, subtitled "The Strategies of Evil" |
| ORNITHOLOGIST | Yellow egg to lift across log for bird expert |
| KINGCOLE | One requesting bowl for giant cabbage? |
| BEGGAR | One requesting, say, clothing for cycling (6) |
| INVITER | One requesting the pleasure of fashionable figure at weird rite (7) |
| DING | Sound of a passenger requesting a stop on a bus |
| RSVP | The initials at the bottom of a wedding invitation requesting a reply (1,1,1,1) |
| BROUGHTTOBOOK | Called to account like a literary villain? |
| BILLSIKES | Trials coming in cycles for literary villain (4,5) |
| KNAVE | Villain, one in a suit? |
| IACHIMO | Shakespearean villain one with a company around him |
| HADRIAN | The Roman emperor who ordered the building of a famous wall across northern Britain (7) |
