| BRERBEAR | Gullible character in the Uncle Remus folk tales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris |
| BRER | Gullible character in the Uncle Remus folk tales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris |
| BEAR | see 16ac, Gullible character in the Uncle Remus folk tales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris |
| BRERFOX | Character in the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris who makes the Tar-Baby (4,3) |
| RABBIT | Central figure of the Uncle Remus stories popularised by Joel Chandler Harris (4,6) (See 14A) |
| BRERRABBIT | Central figure of the Uncle Remus stories popularised by Joel Chandler Harris |
| UNCLEREMUS | Fictional title character of a collection of folk tales by Joel Chandler Harris (5,5) |
| HARRIS | Joel Chandler, author of the Uncle Remus tales (6) |
| REMUS | Uncle -----, fictional narrator of folktales written by Joel Chandler Harris (5) |
| JOEL | ___ Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories (4) |
| BRIAR | Where Br'er Rabbit could hide in the Uncle Remus stories, the ... patch |
| TARBABY | Trap created for Br'er Rabbit by Br'er Fox in one of US author Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories (1881) (3-4) |
| JOELCHANDLERHARRIS | Author of the Uncle Remus stories (4,8,6) |
| BLOODSUCKERS | Gullible character gets taken in by young men, extortionists (12) |
| ALMAGEST | A work on astronomy, compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue |
| BRERS | Joel Chandler Harris characters |
| PONGO | Nickname of Reginald Twistleton, a Drones Club member in the Uncle Fred books by P. G. Wodehouse (5) |
| LABAN | In the Old Testament, the uncle and father-in-law of Jacob (5) |
| TOM | ___ Buchanan character played by Joel Edgerton in the 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby |
| ATLAS | Collection or book of maps compiled by a cartographer; or, a chain of mountains in the Maghreb identified with a mythological Greek TitanA (5) |
