| RUDGE | Dickensian character - good, though outwardly ill-mannered |
| STOIC | Starts to suffer, though outwardly indicates calmness (5) |
| SCIENTIFIC | Customer's out of line, though outwardly so rational |
| ASTA | Character good at sniffing out corpses |
| GECKO | Wall Street character good on City floor |
| THEIST | Article by upright character, good person who believes in God |
| GRUMPY | Diminutive character good, the other half the size? (6) |
| YOGH | Old character's good in drive on reversing |
| GIF | Good though graphic format (3) |
| ITCHING | Computing feature good, though causing irritation? |
| OUTSTANDING | Very good, though unpaid (11) |
| CRACKLE | Sound very good, though having got a little disheartened |
| STOCIOUS | Irish bottled liquor, pretty much good though lacking power |
| SPOKE | Said to be good, though Sep's upset about it |
| KNOCK | Say it's no good though it's bang on (5) |
| STRONG | New sort, no good though sturdy (6) |
| TAILPIPE | Car smoker to follow Dickensian character to Spain (8) |
| RAGAMUFFIN | Dickensian character perhaps has piece of cloth with a cake (10) |
| DROOD | Mr Edwin ___, Dickensian character |
| EDWIN | ___ Drood, Dickensian character (5,5) |