Aesopian tale
The crossword clue "Aesopian tale" is answered by FABLE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FABLE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FABLE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FABLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by FABLE, most used first.
- Story with a moral - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale from Aesop - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale with a moral - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Story from Aesop - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale with a point - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Apologue - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Aesop story - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Aesop tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- "The Fox and the Grapes," e.g. - 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.
- Tale - STORY, used 62 times
- Fairy tale monsters - OGRES, used 46 times
- Fairy tale baddies - OGRES, used 27 times
- Tale tellers - LIARS, used 25 times
- Aesopian ending - MORAL, used 22 times
- Aesopian conclusion - MORAL, used 19 times
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