| THUMBELINA | Tiny girl in a Hans Christian Andersen story (10) |
| PEA | Vegetable that's put in a stack of mattresses in a Hans Christian Andersen story |
| EMPEROR | In a Hans Christian Andersen story, he was promised a new set of clothes (7) |
| SWAN | Bird in a Hans Christian Andersen tale |
| UGLYDUCKLING | Bird in a Hans Christian Andersen tale |
| LARYNGITIS | A tiny girl's suffering hoarseness (10) |
| TINSOLDIER | The Steadfast - -; a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (3,7) |
| GREATDANES | Niels Bohr and Hans Christian Andersen? |
| MERMAID | The Little ____ , bronze statue in Copenhagen inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale (7) |
| SOLDIER | The Steadfast Tin _, Hans Christian Andersen story (7) |
| REDSHOES | Classic Hans Christian Andersen story, with "The" |
| WILDSWAN | Gresley 'A4' 60021 with link to Hans Christian Andersen story (4,4) |
| FAIRYSKISS | The ___, English title of the 1928 ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on Hans Christian Andersen tale T |
| FAIRYSTORY | Blonde behind party and somehow leading Conservative - how is Hans Christian Andersen responsible for that? (5,5) |
| THEREDSHOES | Classic ballet-based film of 1948 adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale (3,3,5) |
| THEPRINCESSANDTHE | Hans Christian Andersen story |
| THEUGLYDUCKLING | Hans Christian Andersen story |
| LITTLEMERMAID | Hans Christian Andersen character which has a bronze statue on a waterside rock in Copenhagen (6,7) |
| FIR | An abies popular as a Christmas tree and recalled in a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (3) |
| CLOTHES | Garments, habiliments or vestures, such as the real or imaginary ones of a vain emperor in a tale by Hans Christian Andersen; or, bed linen (7) |
