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What the Dickens! Crossword Puzzle

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This is my first crossword, dealing with some of the novels and characters created by Charles Dickens. All clues are Dickens-related (no fillers).
Author: dsimpy - Diff: Harder

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      Across
      1. Ebenezer's nightmares
      6. Peggoty's admirer is willin'
      7. First name of Charles Darney's double (see also 4 down)
      9. Sir Leicester Dedlock's wife
      11. He jilted Miss Havisham
      14. Bow Street Runner in 'Oliver Twist'
      15. Oliver Twist's half-brother, aka Monks
      16. Little ____, heroine of 'The Old Curiosity Shop'
      18. 'Dombey and ___'
      20. A lot of this is drunk by Dickensian characters
      21. What Pip has (initials)
      23. Quilp's lawyer in 'The Old Curiosity Shop', Sampson _____
      25. First name of Dotheboys Hall schoolmaster
      28. A dustman inherits a fortune in this novel

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      1. Madame Defarge hates all of these
      2. Novel set in Coketown
      3. Bob Crachit's tiny son
      4. Surname of Charles Darnay's double (see also 7 across)
      5. 'The ___' (initials): Quilp is this novel's villain
      6. Oliver Twist's benefactor
      8. Pip's childhood love
      10. What kind of dodger is Jack Dawkins?
      12. David Copperfield's first wife, Dora
      13. Mysteriously disappears in Dickens' unfinished novel (initials)
      16. Dead lodger in Krook's rag and bottle shop
      17. Young Tom Gradgrind's pet name for his sister
      19. Another word for Gaffer Hexam's scull (in 'Our Mutual Friend')
      22. Dickens' novel set in America (initials)
      23. What Marley's ghost might have said to Scrooge
      24. Pickwick's manservant, ___ Weller
      26. Ward of Chancery in Jarndyce and Jarndyce
      27. Fagin's '___ of iniquity'