| DICKENS | He wrote serialized novels beginning with The Pickwick Papers, and his name was sometimes used to describe the squalid conditions in which the lower classes lived. |
| JAMESHAYTER | Actor who played Samuel Pickwick in the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers and was the original narrator of the TV adverts for Mr Kipling cakes (5,6) |
| NANCYDREW | Fictional heroine of 600+ novels beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, (1930, by Mildred Wirt Benson) (5,4) |
| EPISODIC | Serialized novel is copied (8) |
| DIS | Who was god of the lower or infernal world in Roman mythology and his name, thought to be a translat |
| CGI | Tech used to de-age actors in "The Irishman" |
| CLOTHESBRUSH | Used to de-fluff attire (12) |
| PHIZ | Who illustrated many of Dickens's works, including Pickwick Papers and Bleak House? (4) |
| EGGSPOON | Item of cutlery used to de-shell and eat a soft-boiled item served with something described in 29 Down (3,5) |
| MCNAMARA | His name was this and he was the leader of the band (or the doubles partner of McNamee) |
| WESSEX | Anglo-Saxon kingdom whose name was revived in Thomas Hardy's series of novels beginning with Under the Greenwood Tree (6) |
| RENDELL | Creator of the fictional Chief Inspector Wexford; 24 novels, beginning with 1964' s From Doon with Death (4,7) |
| MANTEL | Hilary -; author of the Thomas Cromwell series of novels beginning with Wolf Hall (6) |
| MONTGOMERY | L. M. ___, Canadian author best known for the series of novels beginning with 1908's Anne of Green Gables (10) |
| JEWEL | India was sometimes referred to as "the ___ in the crown" of the British Empire. (5) |
| DULWICH | Suburb of London to which Samuel Pickwick retires at the end of The Pickwick Papers |
| ELBA | Actor Idris who, despite his name, was never exiled on an island with Napoleon |
| GROGU | "The Mandalorian" character popularly known as Baby Yoda before his name was revealed |
| BARNACLE | A sticker for life... till taking his name, was James Joyce's wife and guiding flame. (8) |
| TONG | This society of Chinese migrants in the USA was sometimes associated with crime |
