| EDIFICATION | Edited middle of fairy story to include a moral improvement |
| SEVENDWARFS | Fawns served as friends of fairy story heroine (5,6) |
| ONCE | Unrepeatable start of fairy story (4) |
| CHASTEN | Leading cults hurry to punish in the name of moral improvement (7) |
| DROPSIN | Makes informal call/demand for moral improvement? |
| EDIFYING | Providing intellectual or moral improvement |
| SANDMAN | Person who helps children to go to sleep, in a fairy story (7) |
| PEA | According to the fairy story, what item was placed under a pile of mattresses and disturbed the princess' sleep? (3) |
| OGRE | A scary monster from a fairy story? Er... go the opposite way! (4) |
| TOR | The high point of a fairy story (3) |
| AFFABLE | Happy to make a fresh start on fairy story (7) |
| ONCEUPONATIME | Opening to a fairy story (4,4,1,4) |
| SHOES | According to the fairy story, what forbidden item of red clothing did the young girl put on causing |
| HANSELANDGRETEL | All the anger ends somehow with a fairy story (6,3,6) |
| ANIMALFARM | Political satire novel originally subtitled A Fairy Story |
| GRIM | Forbidding sound a fairy story brother made (4) |
| BEAUTYANDTHEBEAST | French fairy story, adapted as a film by Jean Cocteau (6,3,3,5) |
| PERI | Endless danger characterised in a fairy story (4) |
| ELVES | Fairy story, The ... And The Shoemaker (5) |
| HANSEL | Gift from boy in fairy story (6) |
