| BACKWARDLOOKING | Give heed! And listen to my tale of the mad tyrant who decreed that all toilets in his realm be installed the wrong way, for he was the ... |
| MYSTERY | Secretive person decapitated and buried in my tale of suspense |
| PUBLIC | Open to all, ... toilets |
| NEARTHING | 1 got so close, but nothing ... instead of ring got "Heed!" (4,5) |
| HEARHEAR | I agree - husband take heed. HUSBAND TAKE HEED! (4,4) |
| KINGLEAR | Tragedy by William Shakespeare in which the title character seeks to divide his realm between three daughters (4,4) |
| ISTOLD | "Even so; my tale ___" (Shak.) |
| ILIED | My tale was false: 2 wds. |
| DOMAINOBJECTIVE | King's goal for his realm? |
| DIONYSIUS | Greek tyrant who opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies |
| FLAT | Ancient Greek cosmology decreed that the Earth was this shape, which helped it to float on the so-called river of Ocean. |
| GIRL | *"...listen to my story all about the ___ who came to stay?" |
| HANDLES | Part of a phone that is held to speak into and listen to (7) |
| HANDSET | Part of a phone that is held to speak into and listen to (7) |
| ENACTED | Decreed that the cane must be returned to Ted (7) |
| ORDAINED | It's decreed that Enid is to take to the road (8) |
| MCKUEN | Rod ___, US singer-songwriter; author of poetry collections Lonesome Cities and Listen to the Warm ( |
| HIP | Like a dude who has Twitter, wears preppy clothing, and listens to all the modern Billboard hits |
| LYRICS | "Just take those old records off the shelf / I'll sit and listen to 'em by myself," e.g. |
| MINORDETAIL | Listen to my nerdy tale. It's a trivial point (5,6) |
