### Clue: Dryden character in a note on work he left (10)
### Answer: ACHITOPHEL 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Dryden character
 A + CHIT(an official note giving information or showing an amount of money owed or paid) **plus**(on) OP(abbrev. for "opus", a musical work) + HE + L(abbrev. for "left").
Defn: John … in his poetic political satire "Absalom and Achitophel"