"___ told by an idiot . . . "

The answer

ATALE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ATALE answer page.

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ATALE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ATALE, most used first.

• "___ of Two Cities" - used 160 times, most recently in 2026
• Dickens title starter - used 45 times, most recently in 2022
• "Thereby hangs ___" - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Start of a Dickens title - used 42 times, most recently in 2016
• "And thereby hangs ___" - used 22 times, most recently in 2016
• Dickens title start - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Dickens title opener - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Part of a Dickens title. - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• "And thereby hangs __": Shak. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "And thereby hangs _____" (Shakespeare) - used 6 times, most recently in 2011

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Does as told - OBEYS, used 40 times
• Idiot - MORON, used 17 times
• Does as one's told - OBEYS, used 12 times
• "Now it -- told" - CANBE, used 7 times
• Idiot box - TVSET, used 6 times
• What a little bird told me - TWEET, used 6 times

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