| MAGWITCH | Dickens character, one after good wife in marriage (8) |
| SCARLETT | She plays Adam's wife in "Marriage Story" |
| HAIKU | Poem elevated characters one after another read aloud (5) |
| OLAN | Good wife in "The Good Earth" |
| WELLER | Dickens character - one making the spring issue? |
| LITTLENELL | Oscar Wilde wrote of the Dickens character, "One would have to have a heart of stone to read the dea |
| ANTIHERO | Dubious lead character, one in another novel (8) |
| MARIACHI | Callas, say, Greek character, one who performs music (8) |
| BASILICA | Cleese character, one around church (8) |
| LETTERED | Highly educated character, one whose word is final? (8) |
| BOWSPRIT | Stays attached to this Cockney character one abandoned (8) |
| BACHELOR | Composer, retiring character, one who's never married (8) |
| CARDIGAN | Character, one with worry getting upset -- buttoned-up type? (8) |
| NUTRIENT | Food obtained from Greek character one's thrown in river |
| PARASITE | Sounds like somewhere one could find jumpy characters - one living off the other (8) |
| ANTITANK | An imposing character - one of Kafka's - producing type of missile (4-4) |
| EMACIATE | Greek character, one arrived from the south, to get very thin |
| CRAZIEST | Extreme characters, one in top that's most ridiculous |
| ALPHABET | All the letters from two Greek characters one abridged (8) |
| MANINTHE | Imaginary character, one of the first two Wells wrote about (3,2,3,4) |
