Related Clues:

• One's near where academics may relax with, say, glasses raised
• Dickens' miser
• At the outset so confident, relying on one’s generous ethos — not this guy’s!
• Dickens character who lacked holiday spirit
• One who is mean as the Dickens?
• Dickens's skinflint
• At edges, synthetic jumper, for example, recalled famous miser
• "A Christmas Carol" child
• Declared salary, say, upset miser
• Miser’s personality recalled after vicious creatures returned