Scrooge

Question 1

Squeezing

Answer 1

but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old sinner

Question 2

Treadmill

Answer 2

The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?

Question 3

Idle

Answer 3

I can’t afford to make idle people merry

Question 4

Surplus

Answer 4

they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

Question 5

Nothing

Answer 5

But there was nothing on the back of the door apart from the screws and nuts that held the knocker on.

Question 6

Grave

Answer 6

There’s more gravy than grave about you,

Question 7

Robinson Crusoe

Answer 7

Poor Robinson Crusoe

Question 8

Oyster

Answer 8

Hard and sharp as flint. Solitary as an oyster

Question 9

Happiness

Answer 9

The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune

Question 10

Clerk

Answer 10

I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all.

Question 11

Reaction to seeing daughter

Answer 11

Remove me! I cannot bear it!

Question 12

Tiny Tim?

Answer 12

Tell me if Tiny Tim will live.

Question 13

Light as a feather

Answer 13

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I’m quite a baby!

Question 14

Salary raise

Answer 14

I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family.

Question 15

Tiny Tim second father

Answer 15

to Tiny Tim who did NOT die, he was a second father.