| THUMBELINA | Fairy tale about a tiny girl * (10) |
| RIDINGHOOD | Little Red ____ , fairy tale about a young girl and a big, bad wolf (6,4) |
| LARYNGITIS | A tiny girl's suffering hoarseness (10) |
| GOLDILOCKS | Girl in the fairy tale about the three bears |
| PUSSINBOOTS | Fairy tale about a cat (4,2,5) |
| HANSELAND | Fairy tale about a witch who likes to eat children, ... Gretel (6,3) |
| THEBEANSTALK | Jack And ____, English fairy tale about a boy and an unfriendly giant (3,9) |
| HANSEL | ____ and Gretel, German fairy tale about a brother and sister by the Brothers Grimm (6) |
| CONTRAVENE | Challenge the French tale about a bird (10) |
| FAVOURABLE | Positive tale about a very old old city (10) |
| JOHNLEGEND | Folk tale about a bathroom? |
| CHESTERTON | Author of The Club of Queer Trades as well as the popular tales about a fictional crime-solving innocuous priest named Father Brown (10) |
| ALANPLATER | ____ wrote the TV series Trinity Tales, about a rugby league pilgrimage, including characters like the Wife of Batley |
| IOTA | Bit of a riot about a tiny one in Greece (4) |
| IRVING | Author "Geoffrey Crayon" who wrote of a book of sketches or stories that includes a legend about Sleepy Hollow and a tale about a henpecked husband called Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| BRIGGS | Author-illustrator remembered for his story about the flight of a boy and a snowman on a winter's night and his tale about a grumpy Father Christmas (6) |
| GOLDILOCKSAND | With 53 Across, fairy tale about a young, blonde trespasser |
| GRAIN | Show amusement about a tiny amount (5) |
| TOMTHUMB | 1730 play by Henry Fielding about a tiny character (3,5) |
| RUSSELLSTEAPOT | *Unfalsifiable claim about a tiny drink vessel orbiting the Sun |
