| SHAPE | Fantasy love story, The ___ of Water |
| BATTKEOFLIFE | The ___: A Love Story; the fourth in order of the five Christmas books by Charles Dickens (6,2,4) |
| WEWERE | Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford love story, The Way ___ |
| WAY | Avatar: The ___ of Water (3) |
| OVAL | Poe story "The ___ Portrait" |
| REEVES | Geoffrey Chaucer story, The ___ Tale |
| LAWNMOWER | Stephen King short story; The _ Man (9) |
| SMALL | Susan Hill's Ghost Story - The _ Hand, recent Channel 5 drama with Douglas Henshall (5) |
| PAIL | Jack & Jill went up the hill to fetch a ___ of water... |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| APAIL | "... to fetch ___ of water": 2 wds. |
| FISHOUT | Like a_ _ of water (4,3) |
| EBBS | Runs out ___ of water (4) |
| BODIES | ___ of water (lakes, oceans, etc.) |
| USHER | Vincent Price starred in Corman's film of the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Fall Of The House Of ... |
| PLUTO | God of the underworld identified with Hades; the name of a cat in Edgar Allan Poe's short story The |
| SWORDIN | Merlin the magician features in the Disney animation of TH White's story, The ... The Stone (5,2) |
| SILLITOE | Alan -; author of the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (8) |
| LAWRENCE | Author of The White Peacock, The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well the poetry collection Birds, Beasts and Flowers and short story The Rocking-Horse Winner (8) |
| FITZGERALD | F. Scott -; novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (10) |
