| GRIMM | Author of fairy tales (5) |
| ANDERSEN | Danish author of fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, 31 The elliptical, heliocentric path of the solar system's planets, comets and asteroids around the Sun (5) |
| HANS | ___ Christian Andersen (Danish author of fairy tales) |
| PERRAULT | Charles ___, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8) |
| CHRISTIAN | Danish writer of fairy tales (4,9,8) |
| GOOSE | A gander's female counterpart with a fabled auric egg-laying example killed by its greedy owner; or, with "Mother", an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes (5) |
| HANSCHRISTIAN | Danish writer of fairy tale classics Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling, ... Andersen (4,9) |
| OGRES | What are hideous monsters of fairy tales and popular legends (5) |
| HAPPY | Death of a dwarf, as last page of fairy tale? (5,6) |
| STORK | Baby deliverer of fairy tales |
| AFTER | Last word of fairy tales |
| TROLL | Antagonist of fairy tale Three Billy Goats Gruff (5) |
| THREE | Number of fairy tale bears |
| OSCARWILDE | Writer of the 1891 collection of fairy tales A House of Pomegranates (5,5) |
| STORYBOOK | A child's collection of fables, tome of fairy tales or publication of illustrated myths, thus something perfectly idyllic, like a happy-ever-after (9) |
| CHARLESPERRAULT | French author born in 1628 who wrote a series of fairy tales including Puss In Boots (7,8) |
| EVERAFTER | Stock phrase used in the ending of fairy tales, 'happily -' (4,5) |
| OGRE | A human-eating giant of fairy tales and folklore, first described in the stories of Charles Perrault (4) |
| ONCE | First word of fairy tales |
| MAB | Queen of fairy tales |
