| GONCHAROV | Ivan -, author of 1859 novel Oblomov (9) |
| MEREDITH | George ___, author of 1859 novel The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (8) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan --, author of the novel 'Fathers and Sons' (8) |
| DARWIN | Charles ?, author of 1859 scientific work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (6) |
| VLADIMIRNABOKOV | Author of Oblomov having lost head via drink with a drunk (8,7) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | "The Rubaiyat of ... ...", 1859 translation of 12th Century Persian poems by Edward Fitzgerald (4,7) |
| FAUST | Charles Gounod opera of 1859 |
| ORIGINOFSPECIES | Classic of 1859, with "The" |
| SILENTNIGHT | Song of 1859 ... or what the five circled letters represent? |
| OBLOMOV | 1859 novel by Ivan Goncharov |
| ADAMBEDE | Title carpenter of an 1859 novel |
| TALEOFTWOCITIES | A ---, 1859 novel set around the time of the French Revolution |
| IVAN | "Oblomov" novelist Goncharov |
| BERTRAMS | The ___, 1859 novel by Anthony Trollope (8) |
| ADAM | 1859 novel by George Eliot featuring character Hetty Sorrel (4,4) |
| BEDE | 1859 novel by George Eliot featuring character Hetty Sorrel (4,4) |
| THEORDEALOF | , 1D & 16D 1859 novel by George Meredith |
| ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 1859 novel by Charles Dickens featuring characters Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
| ATALE | 1859 novel by Charles Dickens featuring characters Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
| OFTWOCITIES | see 4ac, 1859 novel by Charles Dickens featuring characters Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
