| TEARJERKERS | Excessively sentimental stories or films (11) |
| ROMANCES | Novels, stories or films dealing with sentimental love affairs (8) |
| PREQUELS | Stories or films whose events occur before those of an existing work (8) |
| SOBSISTER | Writer who specializes in sentimental stories |
| KAILYARD | Kitchen garden; - school, a group of Scottish writers of sentimental stories (8) |
| BEFORETIMES | Pre-apocalyptic period in some sci-fi stories ... or a phonetic hint to what's found in each starred clue's answer? |
| TALES | Tarradiddles; an old word for numbers; or, fairy stories or narratives such as those collected or written by the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen (5) |
| TWISTS | Unexpected developments or revelations in novels, plays or films; spiral-shaped wineglass stems; helical batons of baked bread or pastry; or, silk threads (6) |
| HOAXERS | Funny stories or jokes or anecdotes (7) |
| CENSOR | Suppress or cut publications or films (6) |
| SPOOFS | Funny or farcical fakes or films (6) |
| SCHMALTZ | A production in music or other art that is excessively sentimental or showy (8) |
| TWEE | Excessively sentimental or sweet |
| TEARJERKER | Excessively sentimental film or book (10) |
| SOFTY | Excessively sentimental or susceptible person (5) |
| CYCLES | Sets of mystery/miracle plays, operas, songs, stories or poems intended to be performed or read as sequences (6) |
| FEATURES | A newspaper's regular articles or prominent stories; or, parts of the face (8) |
| BOOKSHOP | A dealer in dictionaries, emporium for editions, haven for hardbacks, retailer of reads, store for stories or other bibliopolic paradise for the purchase and perusal of bound paper or pen-and-ink publ |
| THRILLERS | Books, plays or films with an exciting plot, often involving crime or espionage (9) |
| DRAMATIC | ____ licence, deviation from fact or form in plays or films (8) |
