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TALE

178 recorded uses

DateClue
2026-08-31A ___ as old as time
2026-08-09Bit of folklore
2026-07-24A tall one may be inflated
2026-07-08Tall story
2026-07-02Bit of lore
2025-09-09Bit of writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne
2025-08-19Edgar Allan Poe writing
2025-06-09Old wives' ___
2025-04-06Account
2025-03-30Fairy ___
2024-08-28Account
2024-06-17Story
2024-05-18Related thing
2024-03-21Something that can be spun
2024-03-12Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer
2024-01-16One of 24 in a Chaucer book
2023-12-24"The Winter's ___"
2023-09-26Urban legend, e.g.
2023-09-11Word after tall or tell
2023-09-10Related thing
2023-07-21Account
2023-06-24Bit of fiction
2022-07-28Chaucer chapter
2022-07-17Yarn
2022-06-03Chronicle
2022-02-11Account
2021-12-26Parable or allegory
2021-12-12Grimm account
2021-08-18Yarn
2021-04-08That's some story
2021-03-05Account
2020-12-12Fairy ___
2020-04-23Account
2020-04-07A tall one is exaggerated
2020-03-05Food cooked in a cornhusk
2019-10-27Yarn
2019-06-04Made-up story
2018-11-19Story
2018-08-14"A ___ of Two Cities"
2018-07-19Whodunit, e.g.
2018-07-16What a fisherman might bring home even if he doesn't catch any fish
2018-06-09Account
2018-02-16Something to spin
2017-08-15Fish story
2017-06-26Shakespeare's "The Winter's ___"
2016-11-27Yarn
2016-08-02Chaucer offering
2016-06-26It may be recounted
2016-06-14Fish story
2016-04-23"The Twilight Zone" episode, usually
2015-10-21See 47-Across
2015-10-07Bit of campfire entertainment
2015-09-26Related thing
2015-07-25Minstrel's offering
2015-07-07Account from Scheherazade
2015-05-20Chaucer piece
2015-02-26Woven piece
2015-02-18Campfire story
2015-02-09Offering from the Brothers Grimm
2015-01-17Something not to be believed
2014-11-23Yarn
2014-03-20"Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox," e.g.
2013-09-08Relation?
2013-07-17Fish story
2013-04-26It might be spun around a campfire
2012-12-08It's often handed down
2012-11-26Scheherazade offering
2012-04-17Poe writing
2012-03-1888-Across, for one
2012-01-17Dickens wrote one about two cities
2012-01-06One can be tall
2011-09-22Fisherman's relation?
2011-02-25Account
2011-02-11Something that's related
2010-11-21Chaucer piece
2010-11-19Something to weave
2010-08-22Recitation by Scheherazade
2010-06-10Something that's spun
2010-02-09"Treasure Island," for one
2010-02-07Fireside recitation
2009-04-11Related thing
2008-11-26Fisherman's whopper?
2008-11-25"Treasure Island," e.g.
2008-09-15Poe story, e.g.
2008-05-20Tall story
2008-03-15Romance, e.g.
2007-06-07Something that's spun
2007-03-15Output from Washington Irving
2007-02-20Legend
2006-09-04A fisherman might bring back a big one
2006-08-29Something to spin
2006-08-24Falsehood
2006-03-05Yarn
2006-02-15Fisherman's story
2005-09-05Chronicle
2005-05-18It may be supernatural
2005-05-09Hard-to-believe story
2005-05-01Account
2005-03-30Poe product
2005-01-31Story
2004-10-27Story
2004-09-14Chaucer offering
2003-12-29Fable
2003-12-14"The Gift of the Magi," e.g.
2003-11-12Something to spin
2003-08-18Narrative
2003-07-31Grimm offering
2003-07-23Raconteur's offering
2003-06-15Uncle Remus offering
2003-05-26Any Poe story
2003-04-29It may be spun around a campfire
2003-04-24Whopper
2002-12-17Load of bunk
2002-12-14Romance, e.g.
2002-12-09It may be tall
2002-11-03Any "Twilight Zone" episode
2002-10-27It's related
2002-09-20Something that's spun
2002-07-08Writing of Chaucer
2002-05-31Scheherazade's lifesaver
2002-03-24Whopper
2002-03-03Romance, perhaps
2002-02-21Yarn that is spun
2001-12-02Something spun
2001-10-03Raconteur's offering
2001-08-31Yarn
2001-07-15Whopper
2001-06-04Chaucer piece
2001-04-15Big lie
2001-04-02Tall story
2001-03-26Spellbinder
2000-10-23A fisherman may spin one
2000-10-22Wife of Bath's offering
2000-07-30It's tall when exaggerated
2000-07-17It's hard to believe
2000-07-16Rumor
2000-05-03Whopper
2000-02-29A fisherman may bring one home
2000-02-12Account
1999-12-28Whopper
1999-08-04Scheherazade specialty
1999-07-20It may be spun at sea
1999-03-23It may be spun
1999-03-06Don't believe it
1999-02-23Yarn
1998-11-30A fisherman may spin one
1998-10-23Woolly yarn
1998-10-09Ballad, often
1998-09-14Saga
1998-08-04Poe writing
1998-01-06Fisherman's offering?
1997-12-24Yarn
1997-10-25It's hard to believe
1997-09-05Scheherazade specialty
1997-08-26Saga
1997-07-16Myth
1997-06-27Account
1997-05-29Some story
1996-11-03"Peter Rabbit," for one
1996-08-25Spun yarn
1996-07-22Sailor's tall one
1996-07-16Suspicious story
1996-06-27Saga
1996-03-11Story
1995-08-23It's hard to believe
1995-08-07Paul Bunyan account
1995-07-16"Peter Rabbit," for one
1995-06-30Whopper
1995-05-24Whopper
1995-03-09Whopper
1995-02-19It's hard to believe
1995-01-29Scheherazade's recital
1994-12-16Falsehood
1994-10-12Yarn
1994-08-24Doubtful story
1994-02-01Tall writing?
1993-12-26Yarn
1993-12-10Chaucer piece