Answer: TALE
TALE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 313 times.
Referring Clues:
- "Peter Rabbit," for one
- Saga
- Yarn
- Myth
- Account
- Some story
- It's hard to believe
- Scheherazade specialty
- Poe writing
- Fisherman's offering?
- A fisherman may spin one
- Ballad, often
- Woolly yarn
- Whopper
- It may be spun at sea
- Don't believe it
- It may be spun
- A fisherman may bring one home
- Rumor
- It's tall when exaggerated
- Load of bunk
- Wife of Bath's offering
- Tall story
- Big lie
- Something spun
- Chaucer piece
- Spellbinder
- Raconteur's offering
- Cock-and-bull story
- It may be tall
- Romance, e.g.
- Yarn that is spun
- Writing of Chaucer
- Romance, perhaps
- Scheherazade's lifesaver
- Any "Twilight Zone" episode
- It's related
- Something that's spun
- It may be spun around a campfire
- Narrative
- "The Gift of the Magi," e.g.
- Fable
- Grimm offering
- Uncle Remus offering
- Any Poe story
- Something to spin
- Story
- Chaucer offering
- Poe product
- Hard-to-believe story
- It may be supernatural
- Chronicle
- "The Tell-__ Heart" (Poe poem)
- Falsehood
- Fisherman's story
- A fisherman might bring back a big one
- Legend
- Output from Washington Irving
- "Treasure Island," e.g.
- Fisherman's whopper?
- Poe story, e.g.
- Tattler's story
- Homonym of 53-Down
- "A ___ of Two Cities"
- Chaucer selection
- Fish story
- It may be hard to believe
- Part of Scheherazade's repertoire
- Bedtime story
- Word after fairy or folk
- Unlikely story
- Maupin story of the city
- Fishy yarn
- Grimm work
- "Canterbury" episode
- Fairy story
- Story by Chaucer
- Something related
- Grimm story
- Andersen offering
- Story told around the campfire
- Liar's forte
- Bit of folklore
- Folklore tidbit
- Hoary story
- "Treasure Island," for one
- Fireside recitation
- "The Winter's ___"
- Storybook story
- Storybook offering
- Related thing
- Ghost story, e.g.
- Narration
- One might be tall
- It may be hard to swallow
- Tall one?
- Elaborate invention
- Folk story
- Lie
- Hoffmann offering
- Folklorist's recital
- ''Tall'' story
- Long story
- ''The Winter's __''
- Story to tell
- Fairy or folk follower
- Chaucer chapter
- "The Handmaid's ___"
- Suspicious story
- Fish story, e.g.
- This could become late if mixed up
- Imaginary narrative
- Fairy milieu
- Fictional piece
- Fictional account
- Word with "folk" or "tall"
- Yarn that's spun?
- Canterbury story
- Fable, e.g.
- Bit of gossip
- Chaucer creation
- "A Prairie Home Companion" feature
- Campfire entertainment
- Bunch of baloney
- Something passed on from an old wife?
- An account of incidents
- Word in an Atwood novel title
- Bunch of bunk
- Fairy follower
- "Tall" story
- Mariner's yarn
- It might be tall
- "The Handmaid's ___" (Margaret Atwood novel)
- One might be hard to believe
- The story of the one that got away, e.g.
- Recitation by Scheherazade
- Fishing souvenir?
- Atwood's "The Handmaid's ___"
- Fairy follwer
- Word in a Dickens title
- Something to weave
- Yarn from an old pirate
- Folksy account
- It can be spun
- Fireside yarn
- Something that's related
- Piece of gossip
- "The Handmaid's __": Atwood novel
- Canterbury pilgrimage diversion
- Narrative story
- It may be related to you
- Grimm account
- "The Handmaid's ___": Atwood novel
- Account that joins words in seven of this puzzle's answers
- "A Knight's ___" (2001)
- False rumor
- Yarn that's spun
- It may be twice-told
- Conte
- Campfire story
- Fisherman's relation?
- Collectible for a folklorist
- Story that may be tall
- Folk item
- Campfire oration
- Colorful account
- One can be tall
- Dickens wrote one about two cities
- Spinner's yarn
- Piece of fiction
- Anecdote
- Chaucer bit
- Saga, e.g.
- Fictional story
- Old wives' production
- Yam
- 88-Across, for one
- Snow job
- An intriguing yarn
- Account hidden inside 17-, 35-, and 53-Across
- Yarn from a pirate
- Narrated yarn
- Bit of fiction
- Invented account
- Scheherazade offering
- It's often handed down
- Narrator's offering
- Account with growth potential
- Cautionary ___
- Shakespeare's "The Winter's ___"
- It might be spun around a campfire
- Adventure story
- Good yarn
- It may be tall or spun
- Something to weave or spin
- Questionable story
- Relation?
- Parable, e.g.
- "The ___ of Peter Rabbit" (Beatrix Potter book)
- Folk or fairy follower
- Item in the Grimm brothers' collection
- Wild story
- Word with folk or fairy
- Fisherman's whopper
- Poe offering
- "Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox," e.g.
- Account of incidents
- Account of incidents or events
- Folklore component
- "Tattle" follower
- "Canterbury" story
- Tattle tail?
- Fictional narrative
- See 98-Down
- Something not to be believed
- It may be cautionary
- Offering from the Brothers Grimm
- Woven piece
- Fairy ___
- 75 Down's is famous
- An angler may spin one
- Folklore sample
- Poe work
- Account from Scheherazade
- Minstrel's offering
- Relative of 1-Across
- Story that might be tall
- Bit of campfire entertainment
- When twisted, it could become late
- See 47-Across
- A fisher may spin one
- Story that might be "tall"
- Folklore bit
- "The Twilight Zone" episode, usually
- It may be recounted
- Load of baloney
- Improbable concoction
- After tall or tell
- "Cautionary" account
- Chaucer concoction
- Second word of a Dickens title
- 'Tall' story
- Fanciful story
- Penny-dreadful inclusion
- Extended account
- Brothers Grimm offering
- Story that's "spun"
- Angler's account
- Beatrix Potter's "The ___ of Peter Rabbit"
- Minstrel's recitation
- Folklorist's story
- Chaucer story
- Hoffman product
- Charming story
- Folklorist's account
- Something a sailor spins
- Bit of lore
- Folk ___
- Cooper work
- What a fisherman might bring home even if he doesn't catch any fish
- Whodunit, e.g.
- Part of an anthology
- Welty product
- Part of a literary anthology
- O'Flaherty product
- Tall ___
- Kind of account
- Folksy story
- Story that may be "tall"
- Folksy narrative
- Woeful story, perhaps
- Raconteur's delivery
- Made-up story
- "Tall" account
- Gripping recounting
- Colorful story
- Tall ___ (yarn)
- Chaucerian excerpt
- Gossipy report
- Food cooked in a cornhusk
- "Tall" yarn
- A tall one is exaggerated
- Bit of 2-Down
- Piece of lore
- Sample of folklore
- See 51 Down
- Story that's often "tall"
- Story that might be "cautionary"
- Fabulist's work
- One shared at a campfire
- That's some story
- "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl," e.g.
- "It is a ___ told by an idiot": Macbeth
- "The Mirror of Matsuyama," for one
- It may be a tall one
- Parable or allegory
- Word after "fairy" or "folk"
- See 124-Across
- "Tall" or "cautionary" story
- Made-up-story
- One of 24 in a Chaucer book
- Word after fairy of folk
- "Cautionary" story
- Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer
- Something that can be spun
- Unbelievable story
- "___ as old as time ..."
- "I caught a fish thiiiiis big," e.g.
- Word after folk or fairy
- Old wives' ___
- Edgar Allan Poe writing
- Bit of writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Bedtime story, e.g.
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 31, 2025
- LA Times - October 07, 2025
- New York Times - September 09, 2025
- New York Times - August 19, 2025
- LA Times - August 17, 2025
- USA Today - June 25, 2025
- New York Times - June 09, 2025
- LA Times - May 22, 2025
- USA Today - April 17, 2025
- New York Times - April 06, 2025
- New York Times - March 30, 2025
- LA Times - March 03, 2025
- LA Times - March 01, 2025
- USA Today - December 31, 2024
- USA Today - September 02, 2024
- New York Times - August 28, 2024
- LA Times - August 14, 2024
- LA Times - July 31, 2024
- USA Today - July 11, 2024
- New York Times - June 17, 2024
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