| ROLYPOLIES | Puddings making one poorly somehow? Stories! (4-6) |
| MAYBEBABIES | CHILDREN INVOLVED IN "WHO'S THE DADDY?" STORIES (two words) |
| WOLFHOUNDS | Barking-mad howls found in old Irish shaggy-dog stories! (10) |
| PAINTBRUSH | Punish brat somehow? Constable would use this (10) |
| OUTGENERAL | Surpass old Lee and U Grant, somehow? |
| SHOPLIFTER | Who's found in store hoping, primarily, to pilfer somehow? |
| NONPAYMENT | Failing to give penny to man somehow? (3-7) |
| TREMENDOUS | Most endure somehow? That's terrific |
| SIXNATIONS | Sporting tournament - Saxons in it, somehow? (3,7) |
| BATTER | Stuff for pudding making? One receives deliveries (6) |
| MONEYFOROLDROPE | One poorly formed arrangement to make easy profits (5,3,3,4) |
| TENDON | Achilles is one poorly noted name (6) |
| GROUNDFLOOR | One of those low stories! (6,5) |
| TENNISCOURT | Instruct one poorly in sports facility |
| WHODUNNIT | Hunt down one poorly written mystery novel |
| TENSION | Isn't one poorly with stress? (7) |
| IMCHESTNUTREADY | "Tell me one of your old stories!" |
| TRADITION | From "across", "deliver" and "give", word for a custom, such as Christmas cracker-pulling, stir-up Sunday pudding-making, tree-decorating or wassailing, handed-down from one generation to the next (9) |
| THERES | This movie is notable as the screen debut of 10-year-old Liz Taylor as the junior member of a pudding-making company, ... One Born Every Minute (5'1) |
| LOOFAH | Sponge pudding making comeback, I see |