| LYNNE | 1861 novel by Ellen Wood (5) |
| EASTLYNNE | 1861 novel by Ellen Wood |
| EAST | 1861 novel by Ellen Wood (4,5) |
| GREAT | 1861 novel by Charles Dickens (5,12) |
| SILAS | 1861 novel by George Eliot (5,6) |
| EPPIE | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of tint name by George Eliot (5,4) |
| READE | Charles ___, author of 1861 novel The Cloister and the Hearth (5) |
| PAULA | "Idol" judge replaced by Ellen |
| MARNER | 1861 novel by George Eliot (5,6) |
| SILASMARNER | 1861 novel by George Eliot (5,6) |
| DESCENDANT | The ?, 1897 debut novel by Ellen Glasgow (10) |
| THOMAS | '-- the Rhymer', a fantasy novel by Ellen Kushner (6) |
| GREATEXPECTATIONS | 1861 novel by Charles Dickens |
| HEARTH | see 6dn, 1861 novel by Charles Reade |
| THECLOISTER | 1861 novel by Charles Reade (3,8,3,3,6) |
| ANDTHE | 1861 novel by Charles Reade (3,8,3,3,6) |
| FRAMLEY | 1861 novel by Anthony Trollope featuring the character Mrs Fanny Robarts (7,9) |
| CASS | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of tint name by George Eliot (5,4) |
| EPPIEC | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of that name by George Eliot |
| EPPIECASS | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of that name by George Eliot |