| BEASTLY | - Tales; collection of fables by A Suitable Boy author Vikram Seth (7) |
| AFICIONADO | A timeless fable by a party devotee (10) |
| FAME | Early fables by the first person of renown |
| MOTHER | ___ Goose Tales; collection of stories by Charles Perrault including Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots and Cinderella (6) |
| AVOCET | Bird once regularly housed by a suitable surgeon? (6) |
| SETH | "A Suitable Boy" author Vikram ___ |
| ARABIAN | Persian folk tales collection that includes the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, 1001 ... Nights |
| TERENCE | _ Rattigan, The Winslow Boy author (7) |
| BRENDAN | "Borstal Boy" author Behan |
| CSLEWIS | The Horse and His Boy author |
| AESOP | Slave credited with the authorship of a collection of fables including The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The W |
| SUITABLE | A ___ Boy, 1993 novel by Vikram Seth (8) |
| BOY | New BBC drama by Andrew Davies, based on a novel by Vikram Seth (1,8,3) |
| 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 |
| ASUITABLE | And 20 New BBC drama by Andrew Davies, based on a novel by Vikram Seth (1,8,3) |
| VIKRAM | Mr. Seth, author of A Suitable Boy (6) |
| MUSIC | An Equal -----, a novel by Vikram Seth (5) |
| HAM | Farmer Giles of ___ a comic medieval fable by J.R.R. Tolkien that describes encounters between Farmer Giles and a dragon |
| STONEMATTRESS | Margaret Atwood's new tales collection: 2 wds. |
| AESOPICA | Classical collection of fables |
