| ELLAENCHANTED | Newbery Medal retelling of the glass slipper story |
| GOLD | The shoe material for the third night of the ball, in the Grimms' retelling of the Cinderella tale (4) |
| LONGEST | Epic retelling of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII, The ... Day |
| SEDER | Meal that features a retelling of the story of Exodus |
| LAMENT | Aria from Purcell's retelling of the story of Aeneas (5,6) |
| DIDOS | Aria from Purcell's retelling of the story of Aeneas (5,6) |
| SIX | 2017 musical retelling of the stories of Henry VIII's wives |
| DAMNYANKEES | Modern retelling of the Faust legend |
| ONCE | "___ on This Island" (Caribbean retelling of "The Little Mermaid") |
| THOUSAND | A ___ Ships 2019 novel by Natalie Haynes that is a modern retelling of the Trojan War mythology |
| ROXANNE | Steve Martin film, a modern retelling of the play Cyrano de Bergerac (7) |
| BEDAZZLED | 1967 film retelling of the Faust legend, written by and starring Peter Cook (9) |
| ELECTRA | 1931 play cycle by Eugene O'Neill that is a retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus (6,7,7) |
| MOURNING | 1931 play cycle by Eugene O'Neill that is a retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus (6,7,7) |
| BECOMES | 1931 play cycle by Eugene O'Neill that is a retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus (6,7,7) |
| ELLA | Leslie Caron in "The Glass Slipper" |
| PERFECTFIT | What the glass slipper was on Cinderella's foot |
| ESTELLE | Broadway and film actress who played Leslie Caron's fairy godmother in The Glass Slipper, ... Winwoo |
| ATLAS | Jeanette Winterson's Weight (2005), is the retelling of Heracles' and who else's story? (5) |
| HAGSEED | Margaret Atwood's 2016 retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" |
