Answer: GRADGRIND
The answer GRADGRIND has 10 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Protagonist of 13 gets new grid, about 1,000 pounds
- Harsh Dickensian Dr — niggard, sadly
- Dickensian character of rag playing at close of 8
- One rigidly sticking to rules he's imposing about grid construction
- Successful student gets hard work in hard times
- Leading character in 'Hard Times', by Charles Dickens
- Merchant in Hard Times (Dickens)
- Splendid network in Spooner's writing for character of 28
- Dickens's 'facts' schoolteacher
- 'Facts' fanatic (Hard Times)