Crossword Help Forum
Forum Rules

I can't work out the last answer.
Dickens character, strong man securing power with money ( 7, 5 )

S _ M _ S _ N _ R _ S _

Looks like Sampson. Maybe Simpson? I haven't read enough Dickens!

Sampson Brass from The Old Curiosity Shop

Brass, Sampson "An attorney of no good repute" and "One of the greatest scoundrels unhung". Brass served as Daniel Quilp's lawyer. He helps Quilp get the Curiosity Shop from Nell's grandfather and when he tries to help Quilp frame Kit Nubbles he is undone with the help of his clerk Dick Swiveler and the Marchioness, his below-stairs maid in The Old Curiosity Shop.

ColinE and Ixion, Thank you so much for that answer, and for the lightning speed! I certainly wouldn't have got it.