| MORAL | Lesson in a tale |
| STYLE | Bit of a nasty lesson, in a fashion (5) |
| LECTOR | Reader of a lesson in a church service (6) |
| ANIMEEYES | Lesson in a Japanese art class, say |
| AMORAL | American finds lesson in a story unconcerned with right and wrong (6) |
| TEACHES | Gives lessons in a subject (7) |
| TEACH | Give lessons in a subject (5) |
| LECTORS | Readers of the lessons in a church service |
| PETTITOES | From "little goose" or "giblets of a goose", a word for pigs' trotters as food; feet, according to Shakespeare; or, in a tale by Peter Rabbit's creator Beatrix, Pigling Bland's mother (9) |
| GRETEL | She left a crumby trail in a tale |
| LATINATE | Introduction of Theseus in a tale spun in Virgil's style? |
| PSYCHE | From the Greek meaning "soul", a mythical character whose love for Cupid is described in a tale by Apuleius that inspired Beauty and the Beast (6) |
| OUTCOME | In Paris where leading characters in A Tale of Two Cities, for instance, produced result (7) |
| GATELEG | Egg, used in a tale about a table (7) |
| CARTON | He dies in Darnay's place in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a tale, went to sleep for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains? (3,3,6) |
| TWEETY | Animated yellow canary seen in Looney Tunes who first appeared in A Tale of Two Kitties |
| STY | No alternative in a tale of a filthy place (3) |
| PIPER | The Pied ___ of Hamelin, the main character in a tale of a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away |
| CLOTHES | Garments, habiliments or vestures, such as the real or imaginary ones of a vain emperor in a tale by Hans Christian Andersen; or, bed linen (7) |
