| MIDDLEMARCH | Novel by George Eliot featuring the characters Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate (11) |
| ASYE | "Such ___ have sown...": Lydgate |
| DANIEL | 1876 novel by George Eliot featuring the character Gwendolen Harleth (6,7) |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot featuring the character Henleigh Grandcourt (6,7) |
| ADAMBEDE | Novel by George Eliot featuring the character Hetty Sorrel (4,4) |
| THELIFTED | and 19dn, 1859 novella by George Eliot featuring the character Bertha Grant |
| VEIL | see 1dn, 1859 novella by George Eliot featuring the character Bertha Grant |
| SUPERCOUPLE | B&B'S BROOKE AND RIDGE OR Y&R'S NIKKI AND VICTOR |
| SILASMARNER | 1861 novel by George Eliot, subtitled The Weaver Of Raveloe (5,6) |
| BEDE | 1859 novel by George Eliot featuring character Hetty Sorrel (4,4) (see 4D) |
| ADAM | 1859 novel by George Eliot featuring character Hetty Sorrel (4,4) (see 15A) |
| LYDGATE | Tertius --, character in the George Eliot novel 'Middlemarch' (7) |
| BOLD | Long-running TV soap with Brooke and Ridge, The ___ and the Beautiful (4) |
| CASAUBON | Edward, character who marries Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch (8) |
| VINCY | Fred, son of the mayor of Middlemarch in the novel by George Eliot (5) |
| FLOSS | 'The Mill on the -', novel by George Eliot (5) |
| CASABIANCA | 1826 poem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, about an incident at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 (10) |
| NICK | He was married to both Brooke and her daughter, Bridget |
| ARIZON | SITE OF BROOKE AND RIDGE'S SOUTH AMERICAN WEDDING (B&B) |
| HARLEQUINS | London rugby club which All Blacks Zinzan Brooke and Andrew Mehrtens played for (10) |
