Answer: hardtimes

AnswerCrossword Clue
HARDTIMES

Stonemasons' newspaper?

HARDTIMES

Book about Mr. Gradgrind.

HARDTIMES

Terkel best-seller

HARDTIMES
Dickens novel
HARDTIMES
Depressions
HARDTIMESDickens novel: 1854
HARDTIMESDickens's shortest novel