| GAWAIN | Excalibur features in the stories of King Arthur, Merlin, and ____ |
| MONGO | Planet ruled by Ming the Merciless in the stories of the comic strip hero Flash Gordon (5) |
| OGRE | A human-eating giant of fairy tales and folklore, first described in the stories of Charles Perrault (4) |
| JUNGLE | Law of the -; derived from the laws and life codes of the wolves in the stories by Rudyard Kipling, an expression meaning "survival of the fittest" (6) |
| GANDALF | Grey wizard in the stories of JRR Tolkien (7) |
| TUGBOAT | ___ Annie, character in the stories of Norman Reilly Raine (7) |
| ILIAD | The Odyssey is one of the places where the stories of the Trojan War appear. Name another by the same author. |
| SCHEHERAZADE | Wife of the ruler Shahryar who narrates the stories of the Arabian Nights (12) |
| TWINS | The __, 2022 film telling the stories of June and Jennifer Gibbons (6,5) |
| SILENT | The __, 2022 film telling the stories of June and Jennifer Gibbons (6,5) |
| CIMMERIAN | Member of the barbarian race to which Robert E. Howard's fictional hero Conan belongs, descended in the stories from the ancient Atlanteans (9) |
| BURNEJONES | Artist and stained glass designer who painted Sidonia von Bork 1560, The Beguiling of Merlin and The Golden Stairs; one of the last Pre-Raphaelites (5-5) |
| KANGA | Roo's mother in the stories based in and around Hundred Acre Wood (5) |
| SIX | 2017 musical retelling of the stories of Henry VIII's wives |
| JUDGES | Old Testament book that tells the stories of figures including Deborah, Gideon and Samson (6) |
| ALIBABA | Woodcutter character in the stories One Thousand and One Nights (3,4) |
| BULL | Johnny --, one of Billy Bunter's classmates in the stories by Frank Richards (4) |
| JEEVES | Bertie Wooster's valet in the stories written by P. G. Wodehouse (6) |
| ASLAN | Lion in the stories by C.S. Lewis (5) |
| JESS | Postman Pat's cat in the stories by John Cunliffe (4) |
