| CHANTICLEER | The cock in the tale of Reynard the Fox , and in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale |
| ISENGRIM | Wolf's name in the tale of Reynard the fox; I'm singer (anagram) |
| CHAUCER | Author whose The Nun's Priest's Tale is thought to bear one of the first references to foolishness and thus is tenuously linked to April Fools' Day (7) |
| BRUIN | Name of the bear in the fable of Reynard the Fox |
| NEVE | '90s icon Campbell seen in "The Tale of the Dangerous Soup," arguably the best episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" |
| REEVE | In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this official told the scandalous story about two students, the miller and his family |
| KNIGHTS | The - Tale ; the first story in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (7) |
| DEER | One of the animals depicted in the Reynard the Fox fables (4) |
| MARIA | Song sung by Tony in "West Side Story" or the nuns in "The Sound of Music" |
| KANGA | In the tales of A A Milne, mother of Roo whose friends include Pooh and the beech tree-dwelling grandson of "Trespassers Will" named Piglet (5) |
| TROLL | What creature lived under the bridge in the tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff ? (5) |
| VALENTINESDAY | Which saint's feast day, associated with romantic love, was first mentioned in literature in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls (1382)? (9'1,3) |
| HELLE | Figure in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts |
| AYLESBURY | Breed of waterbird depicted in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (9) |
| TWIST | An unexpected turn of events in the tale of Dickens' boy (5) |
| WILLIAMTELL | An apple on the head figured in the tale of this legendary Swiss figure (7,4) |
| ISEGRIM | The wolf in the Reynard the Fox fable (variant spelling) |
| GRISELDA | Heroine in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale (8) |
| MCGREGOR | Mr --, character in 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' by Beatrix Potter (8) |
| BROCK | Tommy, badger in The Tale of Mr. Tod by children's author Beatrix Potter (5) |
