| ALLTHEYEARROUND | Periodical literary magazine, founded and owned by Charles Dickens, in which his A Tale of Two Cities was first published |
| ATALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, ... Two Citie |
| TORTOISE | What animal was Harriet, supposedly owned by Charles Darwin, then later by Steve Irwin? (8) |
| MASTERHUMPHREYSCLOCK | Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published |
| OLIVERTWIST | Novel by Charles Dickens in which Mr Bumble, the beadle, appears (6,5) |
| SKETCHESBYBOZ | Collection of short stories 'Illustrative of Every-Day Life And Every-Day People' published by Charles Dickens in 1836 (8,2,3) |
| DANSTEVENS | Portrayer of Charles Dickens in "The Man Who Invented Christmas" who's a big fan of Dickens novels in real life: 2 wds. |
| ALLOWAY | Village of southern Scotland in which Robert Burns was born in 1759, and in which his poem ' Tam o' Shanter' is set (7) |
| ARK | Noah's huge boat in which his family and two of each creature stayed during and survived the flood |
| ENCOUNTER | Political and literary magazine founded in 1953, and originally edited by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol |
| URIAHHEEP | Character created by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield who makes frequent references to his own "'umbleness" |
| NISA | Chain of small grocery shops founded in 1977 and owned by the Co-op |
| AREPARTANDPARCELOF | "Hackney-coaches ____ the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and numbered by the wisdom of Parliament" (Dickens, in Sketches by Boz) |
| VILLEIN | In the Middle Ages, what was a person bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord? (7) |
| SERF | In the Middle Ages, a person bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord (4) |
| MACKENZIE | Royal Marines captain who wrote more than 90 books including Whisky Galore (in which his home isle Barra in the Outer Hebrides is immortalised) and The Monarch of the Glen (9) |
| DAN | Actor who plays the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Charles Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas, - Stevens (3) |
| LIFEBOAT | 1944 Hitchcock movie in which his picture is shown in a newspaper on board |
| SPLASH | Tom Hanks comedy in which his character falls in love with a mermaid (6) |
| BOZ | Pseudonym used by Charles Dickens in contributions to the Morning Chronicle newspaper |
