| ROALDDAHL | Author of many of the stories in Tales of the Unexpected (5,4) |
| POE | Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" |
| EMPRESS | - of Blandings; fictional pig in many of the stories by P. G. Wodehouse (7) |
| BATH | The Wife of ___ (title character in one of the stories in The Canterbury Tales) |
| FLOORPLAN | Makes room in one of the stories heard at The Project (5,4) |
| HONEYBEES | Insects often depicted flying around Winnie-the-Pooh in E. H. Shepard's illustrations of the stories by A. A. Milne (9) |
| THRILLERS | Murderers executed after throttling first three characters in "Tales of Adventure" (9) |
| SIMPLETON | Shaw's "The of the Unexpected Isles" |
| AMERICANA | Aesthetic of many of Fourth of July celebrations |
| THELION | One of the stories in CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, ..., The Witch And The Wardrobe (3,4) |
| KIRRIN | Inspired by Corfe's hilltop ruin in the Isle of Purbeck, a Blytonian island that is the setting of many of the adventures of the Famous Five (6) |
| ROALD | First name of the author who introduced Tales Of The Unexpected on ITV in the 80s (5) |
| PLAINTIVE | Mournful VIP in tale of wrong (9) |
| ROBOTDREAMS | Despite the title, five of the stories in this Isaac Asimov collection are about the Multivac computer |
| STALEST | The oldest of the stories, in a way (7) |
| GLENNFREY | Co-writer of many Eagles hits |
| BLAKE | Illustrator of many of the children's books by Roald Dahl who was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1980; or, the pop artist who co-founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists (5) |
| CHESTERTON | Author of the stories featuring eccentric crime-solving cleric Father Brown including The Flying Stars, The Miracle of Moon Crescent and The Curse of the Golden Cross (10) |
| ANGLIA | TV company whose best-known productions included Sale Of The Century and Tales Of The Unexpected (6) |
| DAHL | Creator of TV's Tales Of The Unexpected, Roald _ (4) |
