### Clue: Kipling's work — only a plea for help, right? (4,2,7)
### Answer: JUST SO STORIES 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Kipling's work
  JUST(merely,only as in "we are just wasting our time here") SOS(international acronym for a plea for help) TORIES(members of the British Conservative Party, considered to at the right end of the political spectrum compared to the Labour left)
Defn:  Series of stories by Rudyard Kipling, fantastic tales of the origin of things, eg. how the camel got his hump.  The phrase is also used to describe, as a criticism of, unverifiable and unfalsifiable narrative explanations put forward for eg. a cultural practice, a biological trait or human or animal behaviour.