| BRERRABBIT | Trickster character in the Uncle Remus stories |
| BRER | Trickster character in the African-American oral tradition of the Southern USA, _ Rabbit (4) |
| BRERFOX | Character in the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris who makes the Tar-Baby (4,3) |
| BRIAR | Where Br'er Rabbit could hide in the Uncle Remus stories, the ... patch |
| BRERBEAR | Gullible character in the Uncle Remus folk tales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris |
| BEAR | see 16ac, Gullible character in the Uncle Remus folk tales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris |
| JOELCHANDLERHARRIS | Author of the Uncle Remus stories (4,8,6) |
| JOEL | ___ Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories (4) |
| HARRIS | Joel Chandler, author of the Uncle Remus stories (6) |
| RABBIT | Central figure of the Uncle Remus stories popularised by Joel Chandler Harris (4,6) (See 14A) |
| TARBABY | Doll to which Br'er Rabbit became stuck in the second of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories (1881) |
| EMU | Bird featured in Uncle Remus stories (3) |
| PONGO | Nickname of Reginald Twistleton, a Drones Club member in the Uncle Fred books by P. G. Wodehouse (5) |
| LABAN | In the Old Testament, the uncle and father-in-law of Jacob (5) |
| SCAR | The uncle in "The Lion King" |
| FESTER | Go off the uncle featured in The Addams Family (6) |
| LEOPOLD | The uncle who introduced the couple |
| SILAS | Sibling hugging Nancy's the uncle of Le Fanu |
| MORTIMER | The uncle of Minnie Mouse (8) |
| NAST | Cartoonist who drew the Uncle Sam we know today |
