Related Clues:

• One who was, but didn't remain, mean ogre, 'cos transformed
• Main character in 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
• Tightwad's self-esteem Tolkienian baddies lifted
• Repentant miser of fiction
• Miserly curmudgeon
• Fictional curmudgeon
• Marley's partner
• Mean character's goose cooked with credit being restricted
• Marley's business partner
• Dickens's miser
• Ebenezer, a mean or miserly person
• Nickel-and-diming sort
• One troubled by the past, present and future?
• Stage musical written by Leslie Bricusse
• Hunks unfortunately score, letting in own goal