| BEASTLY | Animal tales by maverick (7) |
| STORIES | Just So ___, animal tales by Rudyard Kipling (7) |
| JUSTSO | - - Stories; collection of animal tales by Rudyard Kipling including How the Leopard Got His Spots (4,2) |
| LEAK | Centrepiece of release by maverick ultimately is disclosure (4) |
| OTTER | Tarka the ___, animal tale by Henry Williamson |
| RATTLES | Animal tales requiring a deletion: they're intended for infants (7) |
| AAMILNE | Creator of CA would say befuddled animal tale's ending (1,1,5) |
| LORELEI | Folk tales by Garland linked to seductive rock music perhaps (7) |
| RAILWAY | A miniature or life-size network of lines, tracks and trains, such as that portrayed in tales by Rev W Awdry (7) |
| HAWKEYE | Nickname of Natty Bumppo, hero of the five novels of The Leatherstocking Tales by US author James Fenimore Cooper (7) |
| RAFFLES | Gentleman thief in tales by EW Hornung |
| CORSAIR | The ___, verse tale by Lord Byron which inspired an opera by Verdi and a ballet by Adam (7) |
| CATWALK | Model place in Kipling's tale by himself (7) |
| MERMAID | The Little -; fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (7) |
| AFFABLE | Warm female in a tale by Aesop? (7) |
| HATTERS | Heartless act primarily triggers tragic Clydeside tale by AJ Cronin (7,6) |
| LEGENDS | ____ Of The Fall, epic tale by U.S. writer Jim Harrison later adapted into a 1995 film (7) |
| CLOTHES | Garments, habiliments or vestures, such as the real or imaginary ones of a vain emperor in a tale by Hans Christian Andersen; or, bed linen (7) |
| AMANTIS | & 19A 1975 autobiographical tale by Laurens van der Post |
| THEBELL | Greek Goddess appearing for second in tall tale by Murdoch |
