| FABLES | Some affable souls tell of Aesop's works (6) |
| MISTERNICEGUY | Affable soul |
| NOONE | Not a soul, tell ... (2-3) |
| FABULOUS | As good as Aesop's works? |
| NOTIFY | Tell of difficulty reciting poem on back of lorry (6) |
| THEANT | ___ and the Grasshopper, one of Aesop's Fables (3,3) |
| RELATE | Tell of soldier getting fresh (6) |
| INFORM | Tell of fashionable school class (6) |
| TOFFEE | First to tell of price for sweet product (6) |
| REDFOX | An animal with a brush for a tail, depicted in the Reynard cycle, several of Aesop's fables, a tale by Beatrix Potter and a story by Roald Dahl (3,3) |
| REPORT | Tell of a loud noise |
| LEARNS | Hears tell of |
| ADVISE | Tell (of) |
| SLOWAND | Proverb derived from the moral of one of Aesop's fables (4,3,6,4,3,4) |
| THERACE | Proverb derived from the moral of one of Aesop's fables (4,3,6,4,3,4) |
| STEADYWINS | Proverb derived from the moral of one of Aesop's fables (4,3,6,4,3,4) |
| MORAL | Message at the end of one of Aesop's fables |
| ASS | Horselike animal in some of Aesop's fables |
| FABLE | Out of a bleak setting, comes one of Aesop's (5) |
| MOMUS | Greek god of satire and mockery, featured in two of Aesop's fables (5) |
