| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| BLUEBEARD | Fairy-tale character who was hard on wives |
| bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |
| ROSERED | Fairy-tale character who befriends an enchanted bear |
| THUMBELINA | Fairy tale character who sleeps in a walnut shell |
| HANSEL | Fairy tale character who leaves a trail of bread crumbs in the forest |
| JONAH | Bible character who was hard to swallow? |
