Sprawling tales

The answer

EPICS

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EPICS

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

• Heroic tales - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Long stories - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Big pictures - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Grand stories - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Sweeping stories - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Heroic sagas - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Cast-of-thousands films - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• DeMille films - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Grand tales - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Great works. - used 8 times, most recently in 1974
• Cinematic spectacles - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Heroic poems - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Homeric works - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Films with casts of thousands - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Heroic stories - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Long tales - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Heroic tales - SAGAS, used 57 times
• Tall tales - YARNS, used 53 times
• Epic tales - SAGAS, used 47 times
• Long tales - SAGAS, used 36 times
• Tales - YARNS, used 25 times
• Like Poe tales - EERIE, used 22 times

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