| MOLESWORTH | Author of children's stories including A Christmas Child and A Christmas Posy; or, Geoffrey Willans St Custard's character (10) |
| MEADE | Honey-wine-like name of an author of children's stories including A World of Girls and Wild Kitty (5) |
| JOSEPH | Father of Christmas child (6) |
| ENID | ___ Blyton, author of children's stories (4) |
| ALMA | Sophie Willan's title character in a 2020 sitcom filmed and set in Bolton (4) |
| ELGAR | Composer of Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance Marches and A Christmas Greeting Op. 52 (5) |
| ROSSETTI | Dante Gabriel ___; artist and poet who painted Beata Beatrix, The Blessed Damozel and A Christmas Carol (8) |
| MINCEPIE | Caught in colliery by detective with ecstasy and a Christmas delicacy (5,3) |
| JAMES | Author of The Portrait of a Lady and a number of ghost stories, including The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Turn of the Screw (5) |
| HOLMES | Surname of a fictional detective who features in four novels and 56 short stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| BOUQUET | A veritable "miniature woodland" or "tiny boscage" of flowers in the form of a posy or a corsage (7) |
| WATSON | Dr -; Holmes' friend and assistant in stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| ANDERSEN | Beijing is the site of a theme park honouring which writer of children's stories? (4,9,8) |
| HANSCHRISTIAN | Beijing is the site of a theme park honouring which writer of children's stories? (4,9,8) |
| ROALDDAHL | Writer of children's stories had a doll replaced after reading (5,4) |
| CORSAGE | From the Latin for "body", the bodice of a dress; or, a posy or small bouquet worn pinned to said garment or on the wrist (7) |
| BOUGHPOT | Old word for a bouquet, bunch, posy or tussie mussie of flowers and foliage; or, the vessel in which to display said branches, sprays and stems (8) |
| TATTLE | Tell stories including a tale of a teetotaller |
| KENNETHGRAHAME | Scottish-born writer of children's stories, 1859-1932 (7,7) |
| MANSFIELD | Pen name of the author of short stories including How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped, The Garden Party, A Cup of Tea and The Doll's House (9) |
