| RUDGE | Barnaby ---, Dickens character |
| DOLLY | Spotted trout named after a character in 1841 Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge (5,6) |
| RAVEN | Grip, in Dickens's 'Barnaby Rudge', e.g. |
| EBSEN | Buddy ___, actor who played the title role in US television crime series Barnaby Jones (5) |
| SHERA | Mark of Barnaby Jones |
| JONES | Private detective series, Barnaby ___ |
| VARDEN | Spotted trout named after a character in 1841 Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge (5,6) |
| DOLLYVARDEN | Character in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge (1841) |
| DRUDGE | Originally, Dickens's Barnaby was a menial (6) |
| BEGRUDGE | Envy bachelor - for example, Dickens's Barnaby |
| GRIP | In Barnaby Rudge, Barnaby's pet raven (4) |
| DRUDGERY | Dickens's Barnaby in plain monotonous work (8) |
| KIRBYGRIP | For overhead security the king and I take the limits of Barnaby and his raven(5,4) |
| ELLERYQUEEN | Pseudonym of US crime writers Frederic Dannay (1905-82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-71), who also wrote as Barnaby Ross (6,5) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| HAT | A chapeau or lid, such as the flower-and-ribbon-trimmed tilting straw Dolly Varden bonnet, named for the coquette of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge or, one's occupation or role (3) |
| BUDDYEBSEN | "Barnaby Jones" star |
| TRUDGE | Plod is last to arrest Barnaby |
| DICKENS | Barnaby Rudge author (7) |
| WYMARK | Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders, Jane ... (6) |