Related Clues:

• "A Christmas Carol" miser
• More challenging to catch ball for keeper
• One's near where academics may relax with, say, glasses raised
• Dickens' miser
• Taking in oxygen, increasingly difficult for squirrel
• At the outset so confident, relying on one’s generous ethos — not this guy’s!
• Grey has overcome rise of red squirrel
• 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
• One with an amassed store
• Less easy to restrain old obsessive person
• Declared salary, say, upset miser
• Miser’s personality recalled after vicious creatures returned