| BEATRIXPOTTER | Author of tales with exhausted villain possessing one unknown power (7,6) |
| AESOP | Writer of tales with morals |
| LIAR | Teller of tales with unfamiliar ending (4) |
| JAMESMICHENER | Author of Tales of the South Pacific (5,8) |
| ARCHAEOPTERYX | Feature of foot, toe pear shaped, on more than one unknown fossil |
| YEARAFTERYEAR | Happening annually, one unknown listener follows another (4,5,4) |
| GHOSTWRITER | Author of 'Tales of the Supernatural'? (5,6) |
| GRAHAME | Author of tales about Badger, Ratty, Mole and Toad of Toad Hall (7) |
| ROALDDAHL | Author of Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (5,4) |
| MICHENER | James ___, author of Tales of the South Pacific (8) |
| MAUPIN | Armistead ......, author of Tales of the City (6) |
| POE | Author of tales of mystery (3) |
| MILNE | Author of tales illustrated by E H Shepard and based on the toy animals of his son, Christopher Robin (5) |
| DEERSLAYER | Chronologically first but last-published of the Leatherstocking Tales, with "The" |
| AUTHORITY | Writer with personal magnetism has unknown power (9) |
| GRIM | Fraternal author of tales mostly gloomy (4) |
| MARYLAMB | Co-author of Tales from Shakespeare (1807) (4,4) |
| CHUTZPAH | Audacity of church and state, holding unknown power |
| DISCOUNTSTORES | Such shops ignore tales with no source of information (8,6) |
| POLYPS | Cop partly with unknown power, seconds malicious developments |
