| SPINSAYARN | Engages in storytelling |
| SUSPENSE | A powerful device in storytelling that builds a sense of anticipation, excited tension and uncertainty at the approach of the turning point or climax; or, in law, cessation (8) |
| NARRATION | Ran back to share in storytelling (9) |
| LIARS | Specialists in storytelling? |
| UNCLEREMUS | Big name in storytelling |
| REMUS | Big name in storytelling |
| THEN | Transitional word in storytelling |
| ELATION | Delight in storytelling, right from the start (7) |
| LIABILITY | I'm told skill in storytelling is a drawback |
| TROPE | Familiar cliche in storytelling, like "the love triangle" or "the girl next door" |
| DEHRADUN | Indian town where Varun Grover lived, picking up stories and experiences before pursuing a career in storytelling. (8) |
| OUTLYING | Surpassing in storytelling? Not close |
| MOTH | Big name in nighttime fluttering and podcasty storytelling |
| NANABOOZHOO | Shapeshifting spirit which imparts life lessons in traditional storytelling of Anishinaabe culture |
| DREAMSEQUENCE | Storytelling technique ... or what is altered in this puzzle's circles |
| ROOKERY | A group of the corvids known collectively as a storytelling, nesting high in a clump of trees; or, a colony of seabirds or marine mammals such as penguins, seals or turtles (7) |
| SATIRE | Meaning "poetic medley", the art of ridiculing through storytelling, defined by Dr Johnson as "a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured" (6) |
| TONEPOEMS | Storytelling orchestral pieces (In this answer, see the first 2 letters + the last 2) |
| CEILIDH | In Scotland and Ireland, an informal social gathering with folk music and storytelling (7) |
| ROOK | One of a "building", "parliament" or "storytelling" of crow-like passerine birds; or, a chess piece moved in the same turn as a king when castling (4) |
