| ANDERSEN | What was the surname of Hans Christian, the Danish author of fairy tales including The Ugly Duckling ? (8) |
| DIOR | Christian the fashion designer |
| DINESEN | Isak, pen name of the Danish author Baroness Karen Blixen (7) |
| ALL | Warts and ___ (including the ugly parts) |
| CHARLESPERRAULT | French author born in 1628 who wrote a series of fairy tales including Puss In Boots (7,8) |
| HANS | ___ Christian Andersen (Danish author of fairy tales) |
| BUMPPO | Hawk-eyed protagonist "Natty", in James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of Leatherstocking Tales including The Last of the Mohicans (6) |
| HANSCHRISTIAN | Danish writer of fairy tale classics Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling, ... Andersen (4,9) |
| CHRISTIAN | Danish writer of fairy tales (4,9,8) |
| ELSA | Character in the Disney films Frozen and Frozen II, loosely based on the title character of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen (4) |
| PERRAULT | Charles ___, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8) |
| SMITH | Dorothy Gladys -, author "Dodie" who wrote classic tales including I Capture the Castle, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking (5) |
| GRIMM | Philologist and folklorist brothers who collected fairy tales including Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and Rapunzel (5) |
| ODENSE | Danish city (pop about 180,000), the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen (6) |
| DECAMERON | The ; Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of 100 tales including Nastagio degli Onesti illustrated inSandro Botticelli's Banquet in the Pine Forest (9) |
| BIGBADWOLF | Antagonist in fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood (3,3,4) |
| JUSTSOSTORIES | 1902 collection of tales including How the Leopard Got His Spots: 3 wds. |
| IRVING | Washington ___, American short-story writer of tales including Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| EMPEROR | Vain title character of Hans Christian Andersen |
| KAYE | Danny of "Hans Christian Andersen" |
