| PERRAULT | Author whose Mother Goose Tales contains stories including The Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood (8) |
| PETIPA | Choreographer who created some 50 ballets including The Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote and, with Lev Ivanov,The Nutcracker and Swan Lake (6) |
| WILDE | Author whose book The Happy Prince and Other Tales contains five stories including The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant (5) |
| CARSONGS | "Little Deuce Coupe" and "Little Red Corvette," for two |
| COLLIER | Artist in the Pre-Raphaelite style whose paintings include Lady Godiva, Tannhauser In the Venusberg, The Sleeping Beauty and The Amber Necklace (7) |
| MOTHER | ___ Goose Tales; collection of stories by Charles Perrault including Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots and Cinderella (6) |
| LIAISE | Network in fairy tale contains a fair amount of The Coalition (6) |
| HONEST | Each one's tale contains something truthful (6) |
| OSCAR | Forename of a dramatist, novelist, poet and wit who also wrote short stories including The Fisherman and His Soul, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Star-Child (5) |
| 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) |
| HORNUNG | Author who wrote about cricket-playing gentleman thief Raffles and his sidekick Bunny in stories including The Ides of March and The Criminologists' Club (7) |
| CORNWELL | Author whose Saxon Stories including The Last Kingdom recount the life of Alfred the Great as told by Uhtred of Bebbanburg (8) |
| BALLANTYNE | Author of adventure stories including The Coral Island and its sequel The Gorilla Hunters (10) |
| POIROT | Fictional Belgian detective in "Queen of Crime" Agatha Christie's stories including The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (6) |
| RUNYON | Damon _, US author of stories including The Idyli Of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure (6) |
| WANNAFEELOLD | Question that might precede a fact such as "There was less time between Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid than from The Little Mermaid to today" |
| REDRIDINGHOOD | Fairy tale girl, Little ... who appears at the wedding of Sleeping Beauty and the Prince in Tchaikov |
| MARRYAT | Frederick -; naval officer who wrote sea stories including The King's Own and Mr Midshipman Easy and also developed a code of maritime flag signals (7) |
| DREW | Nancy -; fictional sleuth in a number of mystery stories including The Clue in the Crossword Cipher (4) |
| WATSON | Dr -; fictional character in stories including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
