Complete Clue List
Across
1. This Dickens character received a Christmas present, past and future! (8,7)
10. First woman
11. Simba's uncle
12. US city ___ Angeles (in California)
13. One of the Hardy boys
15. Cleopatra's nemesis
17. Exclamation of surprise and wonder
18. The yellow idol had a green one
20. Kipling's walked by himself
22. First name of distinguished British historian and peer
23. Did he go home? (Alien)
24. Hardy soldier but unlucky suitor (3,7,5)
29. Hardy novel title describes a girl's physical features
32. Poetry construction term(abbrev.)
34. British Honorary order (abbrev)
35. Exist
37. Mammy's little boy?
39. Definite article
40. "The ___ of the House of Usher"
43. Egyptian goddess
44. English river
45. Cut off a black bird's tail and he may well do this
46. Trollope's Warden (8,7)
Down
2. Miss Sharpe
3. Angelic child in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
4. This emperor was confused by a place for easy divorce
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife
6. Dickens' Miss Dartle
7. Nickname for a carpenter -or a departing schoolmaster!
8. Rubaiyat author's first name
9. He was long awaited, dramatically speaking
14. One of these and two ho's are followed by a bottle of rum
16. What Captain Miller wanted to do to Private Ryan
19. Perhaps Cyclops needed one after his encounter with Ulysses
21. What connects Sawyer and Thumb?
23. Appreciates greatly
24. Agatha has one for a mouse
25. Cobbett's Rides were this
26. In Llareggub it's called "the Sailor's Arms"
27. Christian name of Irish author Binchy
28. Rattigan's play about T.E. Lawrence
30. Symbol for iron
31. One of three little girls who lived in a treacle well
33. When approached by a thousand the first man changes sex
34. Exclamation of surprise
35. Dickens' Miss Wilfer
36. Adjective pertaining to Legolas
37. Three toed sloth
38. Opposite of "is" (colloquial)
39. Hardy tragic heroine
40. Mr Flintstone
41. May help motorists or drunkards (abbrev)
42. French article