| GODPARENTS | Guardians who might be fairies, in fairy tales |
| ZEUS | He or she with the Guardian who tormented 24 (4) |
| TRUSTEE | Legal guardian who will come to rue test results (7) |
| RACKHAM | British artist who established his reputation with his illustrations in Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1900 (7) |
| DAMSELS | Ones often in distress, in fairy tales |
| OBERON | Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, moon of Uranus named after the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| LIGHTS | Old word for eyes; clues or hints; blank/white spaces in crossword grids; or, illuminations, such as decorative miniature dazzlers named after incandescent "stars" adorned by principal fairies in Iola |
| TITANIA | Who is queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream? (7) |
| ELFIN | Describing the first of the fairies in disorderly line (5) |
| MOTH | One of Titania's fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| TRIO | The good fairies in "Sleeping Beauty," e.g. |
| MAB | Midwife to the fairies, in Shakespeare |
| COBWEB | One of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| TROLL | Cave-dwelling being depicted in fairy tales, folklore and mythology as a giant or a dwarf; or, a person who deliberately tries to cause trouble on the internet (5) |
| FROG | Mr Jeremy Fisher in the Beatrix Potter's tale or a prince's disguise in fairy tales |
| GENIE | In fairy tales, a servant who appears by magic and fulfils a person's wishes (5) |
| OGRE | Hero's nemesis in fairy tales |
| IMABELIEVER | It starts "I thought love was only true in fairy tales" |
| EVER | Penultimate word in fairy tales |
| DAMSEL | Rescuee, in fairy tales |
