1. its full of numbers (9,9) 4. solid rear (4,4) 5.makes your hair stand on end (8) 6. nothing but the truth (3,7) 10. romance (5) 18. alternate words found in here (9) 19. pickwick papers or robinson crusoe for example (1,7) 20. historical, buts sounds dull and miserable (3,8,4)
10. I could be over-tinking this, but "novel" may be the word indicated here as the early novel was in essence " a romance." The French still use the word roman for novel.