| ALLEGORIES | Symbolic tales in which friends capture dreadful ogre (10) |
| ORGIES | One interrupts the dreadful ogres in the revels (6) |
| ITAL | Lang. in which "friends" is 24-Across |
| CROWNCOLONY | Overseas territory in which friend has to keep personal pass (5,6) |
| ASL | In which "friend" is expressed by interlocking the index fingers twice, briefly |
| PHOEBE | Which Friends character played the guitar? (6) |
| PALATE | Part of mouth with which friend munched (6) |
| SHORTSTORY | Tale in which pint-sized violent male is taken out (5,5) |
| UNCLEREMUS | Fictional former plantation slave who narrates animal tales in some books by US folklorist Joel Chandler Harris |
| CHATELAINE | Each tale in novel showing female in domestic charge (10) |
| THECORSAIR | Tale in verse by Lord Byron (3,7) |
| SHAGGYDOGSTORY | Lengthy tale in which woolly-headed Conservative follows hounds (6,3,5) |
| APOLOGUE | Tale in which explorer is overcome by fever |
| ETERNAL | Fantastic tale in which queen and knight get together for ever (7) |
| WATERSHIPDOWN | Tale in which the principal characters speak Lapine |
| ILIAD | Tale in which Hector and Achilles duel |
| END | Part of the fairy tale in which Cinderella marries the prince |
| ALIBABAANDTHEFORTYTHIEVES | Folk tale in which the hero uses the magic phrase 'open sesame' (3,4,3,3,5,7) |
| ALLEGORY | Go really wild with a symbolic tale (8) |
| NARRATOR | Tells tales in Ulysses? (8) |
