| ALLTHEYEARROUND | Periodical literary magazine, founded by Charles Dickens, in which his A Tale of Two Cities was first published |
| ALL | ___ the Year Round ; magazine founded by Charles Dickens that featured a number of Christmas tales (3) |
| ACHAEANLEAGUE | Which alliance between Greek cities was formed in 281 BCE by the people of Dyme, Patras, Pharae and Tritaia and lasted for over 100 years? (7,6) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| SKETCHESBYBOZ | Collection of short stories 'Illustrative of Every-Day Life And Every-Day People' published by Charles Dickens in 1836 (8,2,3) |
| URIAHHEEP | Character created by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield who makes frequent references to his own "'umbleness" |
| NING | Who is this gymnast, who won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which, incidentally, was the first Olympics in which his country was taking part (it has now become a sporting powerhouse)? (4) |
| LI | Who is this gymnast, who won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which, incidentally, was the first Olympics in which his country was taking part (it has now become a sporting powerhouse)? (2) |
| ENCOUNTER | Political and literary magazine founded in 1953, and originally edited by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol |
| LIFEBOAT | 1944 Hitchcock movie in which his picture is shown in a newspaper on board |
| ARK | Noah's huge boat in which his family and two of each creature stayed during and survived the flood |
| 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 |
| GRANTA | Literary magazine founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University |
| 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) |
| ACHILLES | A Greek warrior bathed in a magical river but for one extremity by which his mother held him (8) |
| 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) |
