| HARTE | Bret of short stories |
| ETHAN | and 16ac, Best Director Oscar winner; author of 1998 volume of short stories Gates of Eden (5,4) |
| COEN | Ethan ?, Best Director Oscar joint-winner; author of 1998 volume of short stories Gates of Eden (4) |
| 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) |
| LEVI | Primo ?, author of 1975 volume of short stories The Periodic Table (4) |
| TALES | - of the Unexpected; collection of short stories by Roald Dahl (5) |
| SKETCHESBYBOZ | Collection of short stories 'Illustrative of Every-Day Life And Every-Day People' published by Charles Dickens in 1836 (8,2,3) |
| DISTANCE | The Loneliness of the Long- - Runner ; collection of short stories by Alan Sillitoe (8) |
| SARTRE | French writer of the 1939 book of short stories Le Mur |
| ZADIE | Author of 5/18, a collection of short stories (5,5) |
| SMITH | Author of 5/18, a collection of short stories (5,5) |
| ANAISNIN | Delta of Venus is the bestknown work by which novelist and writer of short stories and erotica? (5,3) |
| ANECDOTAL | Located an assembly of short stories |
| THEWALLETOFKAILUNG | 1900 collection of short stories by Ernest Bramah |
| IROBOT | Classic Isaac Asimov collection of short stories |
| SKI | Writer of short stories ignores a runner (3) |
| AFTERDARK | 1856 collection of short stories by Wilkie Collins |
| ROBOT | Isaac Asimov collection of short stories, I, _ (5) |
| OMNIBUS | Reprinted collection of short stories, say |
| ICECREAM | 2000 volume of short stories by Helen Dunmore |
