| ANECDOTES | Sent off in code a set of short stories (9) |
| ARABIANNIGHTS | Using Middle Eastern language, gives title to listeners - it's a set of short stories |
| SOS | In code, a signal of distress |
| ROBOT | 'I, ___ ', set of short stories by Isaac Asimov published in 1950 (5) |
| CHATELAINE | Set of short chains on a belt, for carrying keys etc (10) |
| EXALTEDLY | Telex lady sent off in a dignified way (9) |
| PRESENTLY | Reply sent off in a short time |
| GREENHILL | First player sent off in State of Origin match (9) |
| SCATTERED | Sent off in different directions (9) |
| BENFLOWER | 2012-20 Wigan prop; first player sent off in a Super League Grand Final (3,6) |
| STICKYEND | Dicky sent off in unpleasant finish? (6,3) |
| HARRYBATH | St George second-rower sent off in the 1959 Grand Final (5,4) |
| MARESNEST | Horses sent off in confusion (5-4) |
| MANSFIELD | Pen name of the author of short stories including How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped, The Garden Party, A Cup of Tea and The Doll's House (9) |
| KEY | A system for decrypting a secret cipher/code; a map's legend; the correct unique first move in the solution of a chess problem; or, a crib translation (3) |
| SOMETHING | Volume of short stories by Katherine Mansfield published posthumously in 1924 (9,8) |
| DUBLINERS | James Joyce collection of short stories set in and around ireland's capital city |
| SCREWJACK | 1991 volume of short stories by Hunter S Thompson (9) |
| OFLAHERTY | Liam, Irish novelist whose volumes of short stories include Two Lovely Beasts (9) |
| ANECDOTAL | Evidence of short stories? (9) |
