| 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) |
| ORBIT | The elliptical, heliocentric path of the solar system's planets, comets and asteroids around the Sun (5) |
| APSIS | Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet or comet where it is closest to or furthest from the sun |
| JOHN | And 31 The Republican Party's nominee in the 2008 US presidential election (4,6) |
| AGAPE | In '31, the film of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein left mouths _____ & screaming. |
| ENDS | December 31, the letter Z, etc. |
| PEDAL | Use the elliptical |
| CHARLESPERRAULT | French author born in 1628 who wrote a series of fairy tales including Puss In Boots (7,8) |
| BUMPPO | Hawk-eyed protagonist "Natty", in James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of Leatherstocking Tales including The Last of the Mohicans (6) |
| HANS | ___ Christian Andersen (Danish author of fairy tales) |
| CHRISTIAN | Danish writer of fairy tales (4,9,8) |
| PERRAULT | Charles ___, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8) |
| HANSCHRISTIAN | Danish writer of fairy tale classics Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling, ... Andersen (4,9) |
| GRIMM | Brothers who collected fairy tales including Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin (5) |
| BIGBADWOLF | Antagonist in fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood (3,3,4) |
| SMITH | Dorothy Gladys -, author "Dodie" who wrote classic tales including I Capture the Castle, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking (5) |
| DECAMERON | The ; Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of 100 tales including Nastagio degli Onesti illustrated inSandro Botticelli's Banquet in the Pine Forest (9) |
| JUSTSOSTORIES | 1902 collection of tales including How the Leopard Got His Spots: 3 wds. |
| IRVING | Washington ___, American short-story writer of tales including Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| PARADIGMSHIFT | Transition to a heliocentric model of the universe, e.g. |
