| IDYLLS | Stories of happy innocence or rustic simplicity (6) |
| IDYLL | A scene of happy innocence or rusticity (5) |
| CLOWNS | Word originally for unsophisticated country people or rustics, later fools, jesters or the circus buffoons feared by coulrophobics (6) |
| JATAKA | Any of various stories of former lives of Buddha (6) |
| WHARTON | Author of The Age Of Innocence - or the University of Pennsylvania business school? (7) |
| FOLKDANCE | A traditional or rustic jig, such as the winding hay/hey or any one of those in the country, morris or sword style, collected by Cecil Sharp (4,5) |
| PILOTS | I am enthralled by stories of airmen (6) |
| FLOORS | Stories of fires regularly spread by wind (6) |
| FABLES | Stories of loud sable ensemble (6) |
| NOVELS | Stories of mad love between Poles (6) |
| COTTAGE | Sometimes described as "chocolatebox", a type of rural or rustic dwelling depicted in paintings by Vincent van Gogh or Helen Allingham (7) |
| OBRIEN | Who (Edna ___) is best known for her stories of girls and women living in Ireland? (6) |
| SILENT | The __, 2022 film telling the stories of June and Jennifer Gibbons (6,5) |
| SINNER | James Hogg's tell-all stories of an offender with aligned margins (11,2,1,9,6) |
| JUDGES | Old Testament book that tells the stories of figures including Deborah, Gideon and Samson (6) |
| GAWAIN | Excalibur features in the stories of King Arthur, Merlin, and ____ |
| BUNTER | Billy, fictional schoolboy in stories of Greyfriars School |
| PAGODA | What has stories of East Asia? |
| RETOLD | Like stories of days gone by, often |
| NAIVETE | Innocence or ingenuousness (7) |
