| BEASTLY | - Tales; collection of 10 animal fables in verse by A Suitable Boy, An Equal Music and forthcoming novel A Suitable Girl author Vikram Seth (7) |
| SETH | Indian author who wrote The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy and the collection of fables in verse Beastly Tales (4) |
| MOTHER | ___ Goose Tales; collection of stories by Charles Perrault including Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots and Cinderella (6) |
| ECLOGUES | A collection of 10 pastoral poems composed by Virgil (8) |
| APRILTHESES | Collection of 10 directives written by Vladimir Lenin |
| AVOCET | Bird once regularly housed by a suitable surgeon? (6) |
| GAYBORHOOD | Inclusive area of a city formed by Georgia's state abbreviation + an anagram of "boy" + an anagram of "Hodor" |
| STORYBOOK | Word for a child's fairy tale collection; thus, an adjective evoking a sense of fanciful, fantastical, idyllic or unreal charm, like the land of make-believe or happily ever after depicted in said ill |
| EUGENEONEGIN | 1833 'novel in verse' by Russian author Alexander Pushkin adapted into an opera by Tchaikovsky in 1879 (6,6) |
| ISHIGURO | Author of The Remains of the Day and forthcoming Klara and the Sun (8) |
| AESOP | Ancient Greek freedman to whom a number of moral animal fables have been ascribed (5) |
| ARABIAN | Persian folk tales collection that includes the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, 1001 ... Nights |
| HED | "My boy's an ugly crier but he's such a pretty liar / And by that, I mean he said ___ change" (Billie Eilish lyric) |
| INDIA | Country in which novels including A Suitable Boy, The Jewel in the Crown, The White Tiger and Shantaram are set (5) |
| ONEGIN | Eugene ___, novel in verse by Russian author Alexander Pushkin, written between 1825 and 1832 (6) |
| JAMIE | ___ Foxx, Robert Downey Jr's co-star in The Soloist and forthcoming comedy All-star Weekend (5) |
| AVIATOR | Pilot finding a verse by a trio, possibly |
| LAD | 'A Shropshire --', series of nostalgic verses by A. E. Housman (3) |
| NOWWEARESIX | 1927 book of verses by A A Milne (3,2,3,3) |
| RENAULT | Pen name of the novelist who wrote the Alexander Trilogy comprising Fire from Heaven, Persian Boy an |
