| ALLEGORY | The symbolic tale is grisly after fifty tucked into beer (8) |
| CRACKLING | 50 tucked into marvellous meat product (9) |
| COLANDER | A chinois-like kitchen strainer, adopted by "Pastafarians" as the symbolic headgear of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (8) |
| AXLETREE | Ten tucked into beer with lime, say, in bar on coach |
| HAVDALAH | Ceremony marking the symbolic end of shabbat (Hebrew) (8) |
| MARGARET | The Handmaid's Tale is based on the book by - Atwood (8) |
| LUMINARY | One instructs mankind and may ruin it after fifty (8) |
| LIFESPAN | Fine spa destroyed after 50 years of existence (8) |
| RASSELAS | Name by which Samuel Johnson's 1759 novel The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale is also known (8) |
| ILLUSORY | Difficult universal and timeless tale is deceptive (8) |
| SNEAKOFF | Slink away ___ the tell-tale is leaving (5,3) |
| FRANKLIN | Canterbury pilgrim with tale is outspoken, having left home (8) |
| FALLIBLE | Line 51 in Aesop tale is flawed (8) |
| COGNITION | The symbolic, or top-down, approach in AI research seeks to replicate intelligence by analyzing _________ independent of the biological structure of the brain, in terms of the processing of symbols (9 |
| HIGHPOINT | Drunk, Oscar tucked into beer a€“ it's the best part (4,5) |
| ALLEGE | Claim cricket side tucked into beer (6) |
| ELBA | Bishop tucked into beer around Italian island (4) |
| AMPLE | Liberal politician tucked into beer (5) |
| FENNEL | Aromatic umbellifer such as finocchio that is one of the symbolic plants in Ophelia's floral soliloquy in Hamlet with columbine, daisy, pansy, rosemary, rue and violet (6) |
| AGILE | Fit soldier tucked into beer (5) |