| Author of A Christmas Carol (7) |
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| Elevated hero in Scotland knows 29's 6 |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Jun 2025 |
| Author who said: "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another" (7) |
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| "Bleak House" author |
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| Creator of the iconic characters Scrooge and Fagin (7) |
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| *Tiny Tim creator |
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| Devilish good writer (7) |
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| A signed copy of this author's A Tale of Two Cities would set you back a cool £275,000 in 2014 |
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| "Oliver Twist" novelist |
New York Times Mini |
21 Sep 2024 |
| Creator of the iconic characters Wackford Squeers and Uriah Heep (7) |
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| Charles ___, author (7) |
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| English author of One Pair of Hands (6,7) |
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| It's hell for an author! (7) |
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| A writer? The heck he was! |
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| Famous author makes children's cakes (7,7) |
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| Detectives return with knowledge on singular author |
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| Writer talked about devil |
The Guardian Cryptic |
10 Oct 2023 |
| Novelist/actor James perhaps retired, having sustained broken neck |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Jun 2023 |
| "Great Expectations" novelist |
Universal |
06 Jun 2023 |
| See 20 Across |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Aug 2022 |
| Private Eye's regularly meanest writer |
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| Author is the devil |
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| See 12 Across |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 May 2021 |
| Studies should encompass one case of cook becoming author |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Dec 2020 |
| Returning hero knows Scots writer |
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| He authored A Christmas Carol |
Canadiana |
05 Oct 2020 |
| See 1 Across |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Jun 2020 |
| Deuce shuffled in decks |
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| Devoid of energy, heartily sickened author |
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| Devoid of energy, heartily sickened author |
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| Charles —, author |
The Times Concise |
17 Jan 2019 |
| English author Charles who had to leave school and work at Warren's Blacking Warehouse, pasting labels on boot polish |
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| Author‘s daughter becomes ill, not son |
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| Devil put neck out in hell |
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| Author's daughter revolts, first son having left |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Jan 2017 |
| Scrooge creator |
Newsday |
22 Jun 2016 |
| Creator of Cratchit and Scrooge |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Dec 2015 |
| Creator of the fictional Pecksniffs and Peggottys |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
20 Nov 2015 |
| English novelist |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Sep 2015 |
| Charles or Monica down to replace children in layers |
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| A devil of a writer |
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| Creator of the fictional Pecksniffs and Peggottys |
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| Creator of Cratchit and Scrooge |
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| See 37 Across |
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| Sweet man spotted with some camera, wiping face |
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| "Martin Chuzzlewit" novelist |
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| "Martin Chuzzlewit" novelist |
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| Scrooge creator |
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| Scrooge creator |
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| Scrooge creator |
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| Boz, really |
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| Sydney Carton's creator |
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| "Bleak House" writer |
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| Devil |
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| "Oliver Twist" author |
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| Twist creator |
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| "A Christmas Carol" author |
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| Creator of Barnaby Rudge |
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| Great English novelist |
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| Noted novelist. |
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| English novelist. |
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| Creator of Silas Wegg. |
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| Author of "Master Humphrey's Clock." |
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| Mild substitute for "devil." |
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| $64,000 subject. |
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| Boz. |
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| Creator of Trotty Veck, Daniel Quilp, etc. |
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