21a touching tales,we hear, what one must make to get by(4,4)e???,?e?t
14d ... pushed and exaggerated by some pushy pedagogue(5)??p??
13a could you give a jot?(4)???t
could be either whit or iota as both mean jot.... or it could be neither as theres not enough in the clue is there... am not of why the clue is not just jot?